Free diagnostic — 10 questions
What’s actually capping your growth?
Sales, marketing, delivery, operations — or you. Ten questions, under five minutes, and you’ll know which one is the constraint. Built by an operator who scaled a firm to $3.7M, sold it, and watched every one of these bottlenecks up close.
Before we start
First, a little context.
What kind of firm do you run?
Why one constraint, why now
Most owners have one constraint and four symptoms. They work on the symptoms.
Effort anywhere but the constraint changes nothing — that’s not motivation-poster stuff, it’s how systems behave. I grew a consultancy from $0.4M to $3.7M and sold it. The constraint moved four times along the way. The method for finding it never did. — Pete
1
constraint sets a system's throughput. Effort poured anywhere else changes nothing — that's the theory of constraints, not a slogan.
62.5
hours a week — the average CEO in Harvard's 12-year time study. And those were CEOs with full executive teams.
~1/3
of new businesses are still operating after 10 years, per U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics survival data.
Sources: Harvard Business Review, “How CEOs Manage Time” (2018); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics; Goldratt’s theory of constraints. Directional context — which is exactly why the finder grades your answers, not an industry average.