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Minimizing rework is a key tactic for eliminating waste… [but] you will have some rework… It is an iterative process…
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When women began working in a man’s world, their lives changed completely.
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…until attitudes [about working women], however unconscious, catch up with the way we really live our lives, the overwhelm will swirl on.
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Time studies find that a mother, especially one who works outside the home for pay, is among the most time-poor humans on the planet, especially single mothers…
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…research has shown that nearly 40 percent of the American workers they surveyed, from the top to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, report feeling overworked.
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In America, mothers today spend more time taking care of their children than mothers did in the 1960s, even though so many more are working, and working full-time, outside the home.
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…once mothers went to work, they sacrificed virtually every scrap of what had once been personal leisure time in order to spend it with their children.
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…studies on human performance and motivation show our work culture is completely at odds with how we produce our best work…
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…leisure has been lost because work now answers the religious questions of who we are and how we find meaning… the total work devotion of the ideal worker has become a religion itself. – Ben Hunnicutt
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…new research is finding that better work gets done when workers have more control over and predictability about their time and workflow, and when managers focus on the mission…
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