{
  "id": 8282371,
  "title": "Is Your Team Wasting Time Following Dumb Rules? Ask 2 Questions to Diagnose and Fix",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/is-your-team-wasting-time-following-dumb-rules-ask-2-questions-to",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-18T17:48:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/soren-kaplan/is-your-team-wasting-time-following-dumb-rules-ask-2-questions-to-diagnose-and-fix/91407337"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Employees often waste time navigating approvals and constraints that aren’t necessary. Two questions can reveal which rules are real and which are assumptions.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}