Between 80 and 90 percent of the information we save has no real value. Surveys show that average Americans spend an entire year of their working lives searching through desk clutter or looking for misplaced objects. Executives waste up to six weeks a year looking for misfiled or mislabeled papers.
You are overwhelmed by paper. You are overwhelmed by time. You save useless papers because of fear of making a mistake. You are afraid that, if you discard something, it will come in useful later. You are afraid that we will lose our jobs if we don’t CYA. Stop letting fear run, and ruin, your business. Let’s set some intelligent, practical guidelines for making decisions and empowering you and your employees to make good decisions.