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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I-Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is to designate fix-it times

to improve operations and reduce wasted time and frustration, at work and at home.

This tip comes from Kim Scott's book, Radical Candor.

This book teaches readers how to be a great boss who, as she puts it,

cares personally about her team, and also challenges them directly.

There are lots of helpful management tips,

but even if you're not leading a group, you can use some of her ideas to make things better,

both at work and at home. Designating a fix-it time is one of these ideas.

Scott explains that engineering organizations often have fix it weeks,

which she calls the equivalent of spring cleaning.

As she explains, everyone will stop working on new features for a week and fix bugs in the current product.

She contrasts fix-it-weeks with hack weeks when the focus is on developing new ideas.

Fix-it-weeks provide a chance to fix old and annoying problems

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