Credit for this little story goes to Stephen Covey in his classic book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Fairly obviously, he is not making a point here about actual logging best practices (though the intervals for blade sharpening are something of a science in forestry.. .but I digress). Rather, it's a metaphor for the need to take time away from using your most important tools to actually maintain and improve the tools themselves. In the case of a business professional, that tool is your mind.
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