The document discusses how busyness has become rampant in many people's lives and businesses through things like emails and meetings, preventing them from noticing opportunities. It provides tips for weeding out unnecessary busyness, such as giving people time to think and travel, experimenting disciplined, and paying close attention to spot opportunities that busyness can obscure.

2. The world is filled with opportunities that most
people are too busy to notice.

3. Most people are busy doing unimportant things.

4. Busyness is a weed. Ignore it, and it takes over.

5. Busyness spreads through email.

6. Busyness runs rampant in meetings.

7. Here’s how to weed out busyness…

8. Give people time to think before they talk.

9. Reward brevity and accuracy.

10. Dig deeper, and find actual facts.

11. Give people time to exercise, sleep and travel.

12. Experiment, but do it in a disciplined way.

13. Say “I don’t know” when you don’t know.

14. Value gut feelings, but figure out how to quantify them.

15. Most importantly, pay attention.

16. Companies that pay attention… spot opportunities.

17. Pay
close
attention.
We have
not yet
begun to
understand
how things
really work.

18. Busyness is not good business.

19. Weed out busyness
from your business.

20. (pause now)

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