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Today's workers are drowning: nonstop requests for time, days filled to the brim with meetings, and endless nights spent heroically fixing the latest problems. This churn and burn is creating a workforce constantly on the edge of burnout.

In this updated edition, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the…

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1 author picked Making Work Visible as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It’s amazing how invisible work can destroy the productivity of a team.

This book teaches why it’s critical to make your work visible. It has a bend towards agile working environments, but it can honestly be used anywhere with a little bit of adaptation.

The author uses the idea of a “time thief” to help illustrate her point and to help you, the reader, conceptualize just what this lack of visible work is costing you.

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