Library/Leak 20
Commitments that outlived their reason
Standing obligations outside the core work: recurring vendor calls, networking groups, association roles, advisory seats, a partnership that no longer produces anything. Each was justified once. None is reviewed.
How you know you have it
“What are you still doing because you always have, rather than because you decided to?”
What kind of leak it is
How to measure it
Annualized the same way everywhere: duration × frequency × people × 52.
Typical range — illustrative
An order of magnitude to prime your eye, not a statistic and not a claim about anyone's result. The only number that matters is the one you measure.
The move — Eliminate
Where it lands in a Time P&L
How long a fix takes
What to do about it
Tools that fix this
No tool names this category on its own yet. The two below apply to all twenty.
On paper
This category and the other nineteen on one page, to tick off against a normal week: The 20 Time Leaks.
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