I don’t have much of an “I saw massive waste in business” perspective. The only businesses I was in were creative freelancing and as a practicing attorney. I’ve written about how law firms fleece business clients by overbilling clients. “Creative billing” was the norm, not the exception. That is one of the reasons I spent most of my career practicing on my own. That is a business expense the bigger companies simply accept. Waste in business doesn’t have to be a fact of doing business.
In the movie “Office Space,” one of the funnier scenes is when one of the employees admits that he doesn’t do much of anything but waste time and is lauded by the guys who are there to cut the ranks of useless employees. In that same movie, an employee who had been fired years before but was still collecting a paycheck literally burned the company to the…
