Now let's suppose that when you try, really try, you can produce ten units an hour. No more. Okay?" Johnny picks another victim. He picks Pullman. "And suppose that you are a non-bottleneck. You can easily do twenty units an hour. But whatever you do, before we can sell it, it must be further processed by our bottleneck. On an ongoing basis, how many units per hour should you produce?" "Ten units," Pullman says without hesitation. Johnny repeats the description of the scenario and asks again, "Everybody tell me. How many units an hour should this gentleman produce? Everybody!" "Ten," comes the
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