How many forms of waste can you think of? Here’s a list I’ve personally contributed to:
🙋♂️ Physical waste – things I’ve decided I don’t need anymore and can’t be bothered dealing with.
🙋♂️ Marketing waste – buying more flyers or booklets or business cards or whatever “just in case”.
🙋♂️ Promotional waste – junk with my logo on it because I think people will care about my brand as much as I do (they won’t).
🙋♂️ Digital waste – hoarding analytics, heatmap recordings, browser screenshots, and other data, a small percentage of which is helpful but for the most part, is useless.
🙋♂️ Financial waste – spending cash on services that a product isn’t ready for, like SEO or digital ads.
🙋♂️ Resource waste – hiring people or contractors for longer than I really needed them
🙋♂️ Emotional waste – working late into the night on a client request that I know from their track record is poor use of time, and will likely be changed.
🙋♂️ Food waste – so much gets un-eaten in this place, it’s seriously embarrassing.
🙋♂️ Clothing waste – I have old t-shirts and shoes that I “love” and can’t part with, but I’m really not sure why… I’m never going to wear them!
Curious what I’ve missed, I’m sure there’s heaps of stuff. What would you add to this list?
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