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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to consider whether your processes at work and

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Speaker 1: at home reflect your current reality. If you are doing

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Speaker 1: something now that was useful in the past but isn't

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Speaker 1: any longer, it might be a good moment to update things.

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Speaker 1: You can save yourself an incredible amount of time. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip comes from a TED talk by Salvator Calli, a

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Speaker 1: partner at the Boston Consulting Group. Callie's TED talk focuses

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Speaker 1: on workflows that waste time and how to streamline or

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Speaker 1: eliminate them. He asserts one of the best places to

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Speaker 1: find waste is in a company's processes, because they usually

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Speaker 1: reflect your company's past more than its present or future.

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Speaker 1: These legacies are massive waste generators. I think we can

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Speaker 1: all think of processes that have outlived their usefulness. Maybe

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Speaker 1: a daily reporting process made sense in an all paper world,

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Speaker 1: but it is inefficient or unnecessary when so many things

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Speaker 1: are digital. Or maybe you've got a procedure that worked

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Speaker 1: when you were all in the same office as your team,

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Speaker 1: but now you are distributed across the country. A process

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Speaker 1: that worked for your kids ten years ago may feel

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Speaker 1: limiting because kids grow and change too. If you are

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Speaker 1: feeling pressed for time and want to be more efficient,

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Speaker 1: see whether there are processes in your life that you

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Speaker 1: can update. For instance, maybe you have long been a

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Speaker 1: believer in doing a small load of laundry every day.

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Speaker 1: That may have been helpful when you had four little

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Speaker 1: kids at home plus you and your spouse, but doing

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Speaker 1: laundry every day may not be necessary if most of

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Speaker 1: your kids are launched and no longer live at home.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe your team started having a fifteen minute zoom

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Speaker 1: check in every morning in April of twenty twenty when

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Speaker 1: you were all scattered due to the pandemic and you

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Speaker 1: were all adjusting to remote work, that may no longer

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Speaker 1: be necessary in a hybrid environment. Or in general, I

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Speaker 1: tend to think people can do their jobs without daily

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Speaker 1: check ins. Or maybe you are accustomed to saving fifteen

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Speaker 1: percent of your income for retirement, but you have actually

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Speaker 1: reached the target dollar amount you need to have, so

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Speaker 1: you may be able to stop saving so aggressively and

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Speaker 1: have a little room in your budget for travel. If

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Speaker 1: we want to live in the present and plan for

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Speaker 1: the future, we don't want to waste time on things

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Speaker 1: that only made sense in the past, So from time

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Speaker 1: to time, review your processes at work and at home

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Speaker 1: to make sure it all makes sense. If not, it

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Speaker 1: is time to move on and free up that space

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Speaker 1: for something else. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas,

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Speaker 1: or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura

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