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Waste

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Harsh as this sounds, if you’re not in the right job – a job that is moving toward where you want to be in life – then you’re wasting almost all the time you’re spending at work.

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Any ‘work’ that is not advancing you toward the professional life you want should not count as work. It is wasted time.

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…the average office worker wastes 1.7 hours per day on personal e-mail, phone calls, gossip, and so on…

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Untold work time is wasted due to muddled directives that then need to be clarified.

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People waste incredible amounts of time commuting.

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People who are determined to move and win, now, simply do not waste time or add stress by engaging in irrelevant or business-as-usual activities.

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…with these outcomes defined, you can then avoid the time-wasting futility of trying to force everyone to satisfy their customers or treat their employees exactly the same way.

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…expending energy to try to motivate people is largely a waste of time.

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Typical roadmaps are the root cause of most waste and failed efforts in product organizations.

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…the purpose of product discovery is to make sure we have some evidence that when we ask the engineers to build a production-quality product, it won’t be a wasted effort.

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