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Our daughter, Mia (6 years old), cried a couple weeks ago about her room being messy.
She said, “I’m bad at cleaning my room!” I thought, “No, you’re not bad at cleaning. This room is too messy for you to know where to start.”
So, that got me motivated. I got toys into a couple of containers and all but 5-6 stuffies into large yard bags. Everything else was obviously trash or dirty clothes.
What is your team’s constraint?
A business has the constraints of supply and demand. This is common knowledge. These are fundamental. They are binary. If you decide what constraint the business has, the conversation is much more narrow. Not 10 constraints, but supply or demand.
If a business is constantly optimizing for supply or demand, what can the teams in the business optimize?
What are the fundamental constraints of a team?
Surprise! Just kidding. There are no surprises in the interviews I’ve done. I tell candidates exactly what’s coming. Why? Because I’m not testing their ability to handle surprises. I’m measuring their ability to prepare and transfer knowledge. The format:
Knowing the format ahead of time doesn’t make it easier. It makes it harder.
Now they have to choose: What passion? What to teach? And then actually prepare.