Your team isn’t the problem. Your tasks are. Delete, delegate, automate.

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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Matt Dart argues that productivity problems stem from tasks, not people. Spend two weeks logging your time in 15-minute blocks, then delete outdated work, delegate what others can do, or automate the repetitive stuff. If you earn $100 an hour, outsource anything costing less than $25.

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These are five signs that your team is the problem. So if this is ringing a bell, check the link in the description of how we're going to actually help you get your time back. And this is three ways we do this: we delete certain processes that are irrelevant anymore, we delegate to the team, and we automate. But what you essentially want to do with this—this is kind of what we do with our clients—is we do like a two-week time audit where every fifteen minutes you put in what you're actually doing in that time, and we categorize it on what things we can delete, delegate, and automate. And in that order, we go through and. The buyback rate is good enough— and buyback rate essentially means, you know, if your hourly rate is worth $100 an hour, can we outsource that task or that role for under $25 an hour?