Posts Tagged ‘efficiency’

Why You Should Kick the “Versus” Habit

A world painted only in black and white is a hard place to live or work

In our time-starved, action-obsessed approach to work and life, we easily drop into the habit of seeing every choice or decision in terms of simple opposites: good versus bad, right versus wrong, success versus failure, winners versus losers. Every choice must be one or the other, with no options in between. Macho management thinking… » Continue

May 7 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: choices, Desision-making, efficiency, reality | 6 comments»

How to Maximize Efficiency by Grouping Tasks

There’s a metaphor many of use on a daily basis that compares our brain to a car or a bicycle with gears. I need to shift gears or my head’s in the wrong gear for this indicates that the human brain, for the sake of efficiency and concentration, hones in on the task at hand to the point where it takes time to remove our concentration from the subject… » Continue

March 26 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: efficiency, organization, scheduling, tasks | 8 comments»

Effective is Not the Same as Efficient

Are you efficient, effective, or efficiently effective? As you are focused on getting things done efficiently you may be making very quick decisions. You rapidly move through tasks and check things off your To-Do list one, two, three. You look productive because there is activity, your list is full of check marks or strikeouts showing completion, and your calendar shows meetings. That To-Do list isn’t too long and overwhelming… » Continue

November 1 2007 | By Susan | Tagged: deadline, effectiveness, efficiency, project, work | 17 comments»