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How to address shallow work culture when your team is addicted to constant communication

Our team has these endless Slack conversations that go nowhere and everyone's always 'checking in' but no one is actually thinking deeply about the problems we're supposed to solve. We're all performing busyness instead of doing real work and I don't know how to say this without sounding like I'm criticizing everyone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group caught in the illusion that constant motion equals progress.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Shallow work and the attention economy?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.