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Some Examples of Waste

(typically, above the front-line employees):

- Useless Meetings

- Traveling to Abilene

- Pretending to Work

- Unnecessary Reporting

- Poor or No Planning

- Poorly-thought-out Tasks

- Duplicate/Unnecessary Work

- Doing Something No One Needs

- Waiting for an Assignment

- Performance Evaluations

- Inadequate Decision-making Authority

- Poorly Thought-out Roles

- Unclear Accountabilities

- Abusing Employees

- Raiding the Organization

- No Vision Whatsoever

- Feararchy / Management by Fear