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First of all thanks to all those who answered my questions last week. I'm working on a massive blog project (over 200,000), which is not an area I am massively experienced in.

Today's question is also from a blog post titled 人の登用. Is occurs in the following context. I will include the two sentences before and the sentence after.

その問題が表れていることに周りが気づかないのは、周りもゆで蛙になっているとハッキリと思ったほうがいいのです。人の登用については武士道の書である西郷隆盛の「南洲翁遺訓」宮本武蔵の「五輪書」にも全く同じような教えがあります。ただ、こなすだけの時間を過ごすことほど空しいことは私にとってありません。そこに自らの時間を奪われるのは、命の無駄です。

Can anyone suggest what is could mean. My gut feeling is that is is kind of like "spending time just doing what you have to" or something along those lines.

Thanks a lot