Managers at all levels contribute to lost time and often do not recognize the implications on performance. The lists of activities that consume employees’ time and add little or no value are endless. Here are some examples: requiring excessive planning activities that disregard the effectiveness and efficiency with which the plans are implemented; introducing new panaceas for improving performance without sufficient knowledge; using benchmarking instead of being the leaders in the field; continually changing priorities; neglecting to provide consistent feedback, which leads to speculation about the unknown and generates the rumor mill; disregarding the importance of thinking before doing; and taking a myopic or narrow view rather than looking at the impact on the system. Your experiences will allow you to add your own time wasters to this list.