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# The Friction Audit: How to Identify and Eliminate Invisible Operational Bottlenecks Most growth-focused professionals, operations managers, and scaling operators don’t fail because of a flawed long-term strategy, a lack of market effort, or deficient willpower. Instead, they are quietly

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The issue isn’t that people aren’t working hard—it’s that their focus is constantly breaking. One small interruption doesn’t seem like much. But each one breaks momentum. Decisions slow down. Multiply this daily, and performance erodes