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WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING

"The WorkLean Architecture is an easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement method for organizing work, so important information and tasks don't slip through the cracks."

- Chris Lynch
Vice President
American Express


FROM LEADERS WE ADMIRE

"To be effective, every knowledge worker. . . needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours."

- Peter Drucker
The Effective Executive
1967

Leveling; smoothing out the flow; e.g., doing two performance evaluations a day for 3 weeks, rather than ten a day for three days -- and then needing to take a vacation because you're so burned out.
Overburdening people, process, or equipment; e.g., people working 100 hour weeks for months on end -- come to think of it, like most lawyers and accountants.
Uneveness or variability; e.g., leaving work at the normal time on Thursday, but having to stay at the office till midnight on Friday because the boss finally got around to giving you that project...at 4:30pm.
Waste; activities that your customer doesn't value and doesn't want to pay for; e.g., billing your customer for the really expensive 10am FedEx delivery because you didn't finish the document on time.


TimeBack Management Survey

What’s the first thing you do in the morning?
check my calendar
get started on the hardest/most unpleasant task
bang out the easy phone calls/tasks
check my email
get a cup of coffee and read the latest on Brad & Angelina

How often do you read email?
twice per day
four times per day
once per hour
as soon as it comes in (but only if it’s interesting)
do I do anything BUT read email?

What’s your dominant mode of communication?
1:1 meetings
phone
email
IM
semaphore

How many messages do you have in your inbox?
less than 50
less than 250
less than 1000
less than 5000
don’t know, but you can measure it in Terabytes

How long does a one-hour meeting in your company last?
50 minutes
60 minutes
75 minutes
90 minutes
how can you get anything done in one hour?

How many times in the past year have you thought, “Why didn’t my boss give me this project earlier, when he first knew about it?!?”
one time
two times
three times
four times
when HAVEN’T I thought that?

Which best describes the way you access and retrieve files in your office?
I know exactly where the file is, and it takes me less than one minute
I know what pile the file is in, and it takes about 2-3 minutes
I know it’s in a pile near the door, and it takes about 5 minutes
It’s like an archeological dig, and Carbon-14 dating is an instrumental tool
I rely on someone else to keep the information


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