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Some say we work too much...

Some say we don’t work enough...

Many work for money...

Others work because they love it...while the people who hate their jobs don’t believe them.

What is work?

Try this, ask each member of your team “What is the definition of work?

You’ll get all kinds of answers:

• “What I do to make money.”

• “Sitting in this office for eight hours a day.”

• "The boring stuff I have to do so I can pay my bills.” (thinking this)

• “Hanging out, having fun, and maybe getting something done.”

• “Doing things for our customers.”

•  Etc.

I’ve done this in all sorts of businesses, you get all sorts of answers.

This is the first problem: People don’t have a clear definition of work.

If you want to solve a problem, you must define the problem.

The definition of work: Mental or physical effort done to produce a result.

So we want results. But you may have noticed people produce results of varying desirability:

Some r...