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"Contraints arise from procedures, rules, habits, norms, definitions, titles, etc. These are initially thought up to make things more regular, less chaotic, and therefore easier to arrange in effective ways. With time, and as new rules (etc.) pile up and interact, their effectiveness lapses. Only the rigidity remains."
...according to Laurent, and I agree. Even when a constraint appears to be a physical limitation of capacity, that limitation is often caused by mismanagement based on outdated rules and erroneous assumptions about how the system really works.
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