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When the schedule slips, the instinctive move is to open another zone and add more crews. Goldratt-Ashlag's Rules of Flow Rule #1 explains why that response makes the project worse, not better — and what to do instead. Plus: HRC tops $1,070/ton and mill utilization hits a 4.5-year high.

Issue 4 · April 23, 2026 Walk any active jobsite for twenty minutes with a stopwatch and you can measure a problem most PMs have learned to stop seeing. Count the people waiting. Count the materials sitting in boxes they shouldn't still be in. Count the work that's being done a second time because someone got it wrong the first time. Then add up the cost. That's not overhead. That's the job quietly bleeding out. Taiichi Ohno — the Toyota engineer who built the production syst