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ISSUE 2 · MARCH 26, 2026 Everyone on the project is busy. The parking lot is full at 6 AM. Every trade has crews on site. And somehow, the schedule is slipping. That disconnect — maximum activity, minimum progress — is the problem Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag set out to explain in Goldratt’s Rules of Flow (2021), a book that takes her father Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints and distills it into a set of rules for how work should move through any system, including a construc

Systems, Not People ISSUE 1 · MARCH 12, 2026 Here’s a pattern you might recognize. The same problems keep showing up project after project — submittals fall behind, buyout drags, coordination meetings turn into firefighting sessions — and every time, you end up solving it the same way: longer hours, harder conversations, more pressure on the same people. The faces change but the problems don’t. That’s not a people problem. That’s a system telling you something. W. Edwards Dem