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When your 9 am meeting gets pushed and then cancelled:
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You after ticking off the easiest task on your to-do list:
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When you need to start a crowdfunding campaign:
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When you have two days to read an 84-page report on systems thinking and write a 2,000-word article on it, so you decide the best first step would be to take a nap:
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Your accounts team when they ask you to stick to the budget they decided on 10 years ago for buying a laptop/recording equipment for field visits:
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Every time you send a risky e-mail to your funder:
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When a consultant with a degree in development studies from a foreign university insists that your organisation, which has been working in the field with community members for more than a decade, is not ‘innovative enough’:
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Your funder when you redo and submit the impact report for the fourth time based on their feedback and they still want to ‘discuss some edits’:
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What you actually mean when you sign off your e-mails with ‘If you have any more questions, feel free to reach out to me’:
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Your unread e-mails to you at the end of every day: