S1 E7 · Practice Guide
The Low-Value Work Audit
Free companion workbook · The Work No One Needs
Most of us are busy. Very few of us are busy with the work that actually matters. This guide is the companion to S1 E7 of Brave Proximity, where Marissa Green and Susan Page name the real reason organisations drown in low-value work — indifference — and what genuine mission-aligned leadership looks like when you finally decide to stop doing the tasks nobody actually needs.
What’s inside
The Fake Work Inventory
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A brutally honest look at your task list. Which items are there because they matter — and which are there because they've always been there, nobody's cancelled them, and doing them feels safer than admitting they're unnecessary?
The Mission Alignment Check
2
Three questions to evaluate whether the work consuming most of your week is actually connected to the thing your organisation exists to do — or just the thing that generates the most internal activity.
The Deletion Scripts
3
Language for killing the task, the meeting, the report, and the process that no longer serves a real purpose — without making everyone feel like they've wasted the last two years doing it.
The Focus Brief
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A one-page micro-brief for redirecting your team's energy toward the work that actually moves the mission. Not a strategy document — a practical weekly tool.