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How to Know Whether You’re Giving Your Team Needless Work

Harvard Business

Is your work time taken up by mandatory tasks that have no discernable value? Consider the iconic “TPS report,” from the cult film Office Space , an ostensibly useless administrative report whose form is far more important to the boss than its content.)

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4 Organizational Mistakes That Plague Modern Knowledge Workers

Harvard Business

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Frosted film or patterned glass walls instead of clear glass.

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