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While I always knew there was something else that reflected true organizational efficiency, I didn’t know what it was until I read this book. This book introduced me to the idea of “flow efficiency,” instead of “resource efficiency.”

Too often, managers think the world is more efficient if they slice the work and create handoffs from one expert to the next. But that creates delays and waste in the system. Worse, when we try to “scale” efforts, all those handoffs get larger and larger. Read this book to start seeing the world differently and consider what you can do to…

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