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Stop Fixing Problems—Start Building Systems

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Zach Marshall
Mar 03, 2025
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Most business leaders spend an most of their time thinking about people—hiring, managing, motivating. The rest of their time? Playing whack-a-mole with problems.

A fire pops up, they scramble to fix it. Another issue? Fix that too. The cycle repeats. It’s exhausting, reactive, and worst of all—it’s a bad way to run a business.

When faced with recurring pr…

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