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BUSINESS BUSINESS ACHIEVING RESULTS • Thinking is a discipline. If you want to be better at it, you’ve got to work at it. • Figure out where you need to focus your energy, and then use the 80/20 rule • To think differently, do different things. When I graduated from my undergraduate degree, I worked as a Junior Accountant at a medium sized CA firm in Canada. I was inundated with audit work and found myself often confused by the amount of work. One time while working late into the night my boss came up to me and said to me “What are you doing? Shuffling papers!” Image credit: Tec Estromberg L ikely all of us have, at some time or another, felt “snowed under” at work. Tasked with so many projects that the thought of seeing the