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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. This is Laura.

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Today's tip is to write your own operating manual.

Letting people know about how you work can make you more productive and hopefully limit the chances for misunderstandings. Today's tip like some others this week, comes from Amanda Imber's new book, Time-wise.

In this book, Amanda shares tips from lots of successful people on how they work and make time feel more fun.

One of the tips is called Why You Need a One-page Operating Manual. Amanda interviewed Darren Murf of GetLab.

Murf noted that he had created his own one-page document, which is, as Murf puts it,

an operating manual of how you can quickly get up to speed about working with me.

It explains how I like to be communicated with, what I hope to learn in working with you, and

what you need to know about me, things like personality type, my working style, and

when I generally prefer to work.

Amanda notes that reading this manual only takes a couple of minutes, but you'll learn more in those few minutes than it would normally take in the two weeks or longer that it takes to understand a coworker that you are meeting for the first time.

I think this is a wise idea. It's just efficient.

Now, I know that it might seem a little presumptuous to create such a manual.

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