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Dealing with overlapping responsibilities

Dealing with overlapping responsibilities

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Dealing with overlapping responsibilities

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- Working with a partner can sometimes help you be more productive. But sometimes it can be very distracting. When I use the word partner, I'm referring to any kind of situation where you're sharing responsibility with one or more other people. Such as spouses working together, or co-managers, or actual partners within a business. The idea behind creating a partnership is that by spreading out the work among many people, we're going to get more work done. However, what can also happen is, well, it's something that I learned while playing volleyball back in the day. Now, it may not look like it, but I used to play volleyball a lot. And one thing that I learned was something called the Hubby-wife serve. The Hubby-wife serve is where the server on the other team puts the ball right between two people. If you serve the ball down the middle like that, there's a high likelihood that both players say, you've got it, and…

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