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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. 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

that have been bothering people for months.

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