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All right folks, here we go with the show. The We must have said a number of times that each manager ought to have a number two, a designated

number two.

So you know in case they're incommunicado or on vacation or an

offside or a client side or whatever we recommend that managers have someone

who is named right actually

named to be in charge of the organization in their absence but we've never

really talked about how to get up with number two, right?

Which, you know, for some people, they might think it obvious,

but it's not always.

No, it's not.

And there's some things to think about.

And actually, when we get into it,'re going to ask people to think about it in an order that they may not necessarily think about it first.

Yeah. So we've got we've got four recommendations. Actually we've got four recommendations.

Actually, we've got four points, four steps in this cast.

The first step is we want to talk for a minute

about the primary reason, which is wrong,

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