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Angela Montgomery

Angela Montgomery

Co-founder and partner at Intelligent Management; author of "The Human Constraint"; management consultant specializing in systems thinking, Theory of Constraints, and Deming methodology.

Jun 1, 2026

27:31
Are, uh, is that where we're headed with this?
27:33
Exactly.
27:34
It's, um, it's a way of opening the mind to possibilities that we would not have seen if we didn't go through, uh, this, this passage.
27:45
So the beauty of what Dr. Goldratt has developed is that there are precise steps that we can take, starting from a situation where we feel stuck.
27:54
We, we know we can do more, we know we can achieve more, we know the market is bigger, or whatever that situation is, um, but for some reason, we can't see the way through.
28:06
And so that is what, uh, at Intelligent Management, our company, we have come to call the cognitive constraint.
28:13
Um, that's why I called my book The Human Constraint.

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38:01
Yeah, and so, um, what sort of practical examples could you share with me, w- obviously without going in breaching any confidentiality, but what sorts of practical examples can you share with my listeners where, you know, you went into a situation where, uh, the lack of a systemic, uh, thinking approach was holding a, a, a group of people or an organization back, and it w- it took a little bit of time, but so- whatever it was, an intervention or two, to help the people unlock it for themselves?

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