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The Critical Path — Why Goals Without Direction Stall
You set the goal. You know what you want. So why, by Wednesday, does the week feel like it’s drifted? Most performance effort fails not from lack of effort, but lack of structure. Here’s what the research says is actually missing — and where to start building the system. — and the most overlooked part of that structure is your critical path.
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