Nairobi, July 23 -- Please submit the report with a deadline that passed yesterday. What do you mean you did not finish it? Did you even start it? How can you honestly state that you did not even begin? Then what about the other project due tomorrow. Will that also delay? By a week? What? How?
We lament the pitfalls, downsides, and struggles of procrastination that push work and personal tasks, hinder goals, and increase stress levels. Procrastination yields undesirable work outcomes including shrunken coordination, lower reliability, reduced predictability, and diminished work output that cuts firm profits. We continue this week in Business Talk's miniseries on procrastination.
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