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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

$2 million in salary, 12 hours a day, zero progress.

That's what was happening at a tech company whose CEO I was advising. Their most

expensive talent, their most valuable creators were producing next to nothing. Not because they were

lazy and not because they were incompetent because of something so simple yet so devastating.

That's when I pointed it out to the CEO. He nearly fell off his chair. In fact,

when I look inside most companies, I find the same hidden disaster, costing them millions in

wasted talent, lost productivity, and missed opportunities. I showed him one example, why one of his

best developers, who was incredibly productive at the company that he was recruited from, was

suddenly underperforming at this company. The developer was working 12-hour days, staying late,

coming in early, but producing less than ever. Why? Well, when his schedule was looked into,

his calendar looked something like this. 9 a.m. Quick sync. 10.30, brief check-in.

11.15, team update.

2 o'clock, status report. 3.30, project review.

Each meeting was pitched as just 30 minutes.

Won't take long.

Really quick catch up.

But here's what nobody around him understood.

For the one who has to develop, meaning build, create, and design,

every quote-unquote quick meeting is like taking a sledgehammer to their entire day. Let me explain.

Inspired by Paul Graham's 2009 groundbreaking essay, there are two types of people in your organization,

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