WEBVTT - Do your processes reflect your past or your present?

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is to consider whether your processes at work and

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<v Speaker 1>at home reflect your current reality. If you are doing

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<v Speaker 1>something now that was useful in the past but isn't

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<v Speaker 1>any longer, it might be a good moment to update things.

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<v Speaker 1>You can save yourself an incredible amount of time. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip comes from a TED talk by Salvator Calli, a

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<v Speaker 1>partner at the Boston Consulting Group. Callie's TED talk focuses

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<v Speaker 1>on workflows that waste time and how to streamline or

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<v Speaker 1>eliminate them. He asserts one of the best places to

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<v Speaker 1>find waste is in a company's processes, because they usually

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<v Speaker 1>reflect your company's past more than its present or future.

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<v Speaker 1>These legacies are massive waste generators. I think we can

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<v Speaker 1>all think of processes that have outlived their usefulness. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>a daily reporting process made sense in an all paper world,

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<v Speaker 1>but it is inefficient or unnecessary when so many things

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<v Speaker 1>are digital. Or maybe you've got a procedure that worked

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<v Speaker 1>when you were all in the same office as your team,

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<v Speaker 1>but now you are distributed across the country. A process

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<v Speaker 1>that worked for your kids ten years ago may feel

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<v Speaker 1>limiting because kids grow and change too. If you are

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<v Speaker 1>feeling pressed for time and want to be more efficient,

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<v Speaker 1>see whether there are processes in your life that you

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<v Speaker 1>can update. For instance, maybe you have long been a

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<v Speaker 1>believer in doing a small load of laundry every day.

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<v Speaker 1>That may have been helpful when you had four little

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<v Speaker 1>kids at home plus you and your spouse, but doing

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<v Speaker 1>laundry every day may not be necessary if most of

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<v Speaker 1>your kids are launched and no longer live at home.

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<v Speaker 1>Or maybe your team started having a fifteen minute zoom

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<v Speaker 1>check in every morning in April of twenty twenty when

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<v Speaker 1>you were all scattered due to the pandemic and you

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<v Speaker 1>were all adjusting to remote work, that may no longer

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<v Speaker 1>be necessary in a hybrid environment. Or in general, I

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<v Speaker 1>tend to think people can do their jobs without daily

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<v Speaker 1>check ins. Or maybe you are accustomed to saving fifteen

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<v Speaker 1>percent of your income for retirement, but you have actually

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<v Speaker 1>reached the target dollar amount you need to have, so

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<v Speaker 1>you may be able to stop saving so aggressively and

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<v Speaker 1>have a little room in your budget for travel. If

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<v Speaker 1>we want to live in the present and plan for

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<v Speaker 1>the future, we don't want to waste time on things

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<v Speaker 1>that only made sense in the past, So from time

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<v Speaker 1>to time, review your processes at work and at home

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<v Speaker 1>to make sure it all makes sense. If not, it

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<v Speaker 1>is time to move on and free up that space

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<v Speaker 1>for something else. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks

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

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

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