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systemic change

Time is the most precious commodity—let’s see if we can find ways to give our fellow citizens more of it.

—CASS SUNSTEIN, PROFESSOR, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

This book is for you, so to this point I’ve focused on you: what you do with your time, what you can change, and how you can change it.

But it’s not entirely your fault that you feel time poor. Social structures promote time poverty. Our organizations and their human resource policies, and our public institutions and their structures, contribute substantially to this modern affliction.1 As much as you can change, so can they. This final chapter is for them.

More specifically, it’s meant to enlist you in a broader effort to engage leaders in creating time-friendly policies ...

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