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How to Succeed in Business? Do Less Most top performers in business have one thing in common: They accept fewer tasks and then obsess over getting them right By   Morten T. Hansen Jan. 12, 2018 10:26 a.m. ET https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-succeed-in-business-do-less-1515770816 Most Americans work impossibly hard. We put in long hours and maximum effort, but better performance often eludes us. I’m no exception. I remember being in my 20s and landing my dream job as a management consultant at the posh London office of the U.S.-based Boston Consulting Group. I strode through the front doors on my first day wearing an elegant new blue suit and equipped with what I thought was a brilliant strategy for impressing my bosses: I would work crazy hours. Over the next three years, I toiled for 60, 70, 80, even 90 hours a week. I drank an endless stream of weak British coffee and survived on a supply of chocolate bars I kept in my top drawer. One day, as I struggled thro...

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