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Focus on system

Goals are results you want to achieve. The system is a process that leads to those results. Goals are good for setting direction, but systems are best for making progress.

To see the progress of an outcome you are left chasing, you need to change the system behind it. You fix inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.

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