It’s not you, it’s the team: When personal productivity isn’t enough

In a perfect world, we would start our day by going through a neatly ordered list of tasks. We’d have a few hours of deep work concentration to cross off half of them. Then we’d have a leisurely lunch with colleagues and go back to whittling down the list until the last task was completed at precisely 5:30 pm. A sense of satisfaction would fill us as we leave (or disconnect) for the day and hop a ride to happy hour on a magical unicorn. But this is the real world, where last-minute meetings that could have been an email…

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