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From the Ted Talk by Debbie Lovich: 3 tips for leaders to get the future of work right

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Here's nubmer three. Think beyond the schedule. Guess what? The future of work is not two days that you get to work from home. This is our chance right now to reimagine, rceude, replace or even eliminate things like long commutes, endless meetings with too many people there, recurring metnegis that never go away, synchronous work, silos, command-and-control leaders, administrivia -- that's my word for the low-value stuff that clgos our calendars. In other words, we could stop contorting our leivs around work, but we could actually reshape work to better fit our lives. So that's number three. Think beyond the schedule.

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Here's ______ three. Think beyond the schedule. Guess what? The future of work is not two days that you get to work from home. This is our chance right now to reimagine, ______, replace or even eliminate things like long commutes, endless meetings with too many people there, recurring ________ that never go away, synchronous work, silos, command-and-control leaders, administrivia -- that's my word for the low-value stuff that _____ our calendars. In other words, we could stop contorting our _____ around work, but we could actually reshape work to better fit our lives. So that's number three. Think beyond the schedule.

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Original Text

Here's number three. Think beyond the schedule. Guess what? The future of work is not two days that you get to work from home. This is our chance right now to reimagine, reduce, replace or even eliminate things like long commutes, endless meetings with too many people there, recurring meetings that never go away, synchronous work, silos, command-and-control leaders, administrivia -- that's my word for the low-value stuff that clogs our calendars. In other words, we could stop contorting our lives around work, but we could actually reshape work to better fit our lives. So that's number three. Think beyond the schedule.

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