The bottleneck method only works if the leader is personally the one doing the bottleneck-clearing, which demands an unusual lifestyle trade-off. Elon sold all his houses, couch-surfs, takes no vacations, and works 80-hour weeks — because the system requires the most senior person to be physically present with the engineer fixing the constraint, not delegating it. The framework is not free: it is a full-time human commitment disguised as a management technique.
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