202108031351 Block model for maximum capacity

The block model for maximum working capacity is as follows:¹²

1. There are small blocks and large blocks that represent tasks, projects, or any responsibility a person has to manage or work on.
2. Small blocks take up 1 unit of capacity
3. Large blocks take up 5 units of capacity.
4. Each person in an organization has a box of maximum capacity equal to 15 regardless of how it's split up. A person could have 15 small blocks or 3 large ones or something in between.
5. There are no exceptions or ways to expand that capacity.
6. There are only two options for units of work: do or delegate. Nothing can move around or leave the system in any other way. If you do the task, it's in your capacity box. If you delegate it, it travels down a level and is in that person's capacity box.

This model is useful for describing a few phenomena such as how 202108031350 Delegating increases the significance of tasks and where we need to 202106241530 Delegate to the floor.