Cubicle Warriors Need Crankable Widgets

Back when manufacturing ruled, crankable widgets were supreme. For example, in my summer vacation back in college, I worked at a paper factory. My job was pack boxes into cartons and put them on a line that went down to shipping.

I was cranking out widgets – twelve diapers to a box, twelve boxes to a carton, 750 cartons per eight-hour shift. That’s a lot of diapers and a lot of crankable widgets.

Now that we are knowledge workers, crankable widgets would seem to no longer exist. But they do. And Cubicle Warriors need to take advantage of them.

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