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An important lesson I learned this week
Hey friends,
My team and I recently had a whole 2-day planning session. We bounced ideas around, and everyone had their say on the long-term business strategy.
Taking time off from ‘business as usual’ reminded me of this great point (roughly paraphrased from Steven Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People):When it comes to Things, effectiveness and efficiency are usually broadly similar. But when it comes to People, effectiveness often looks like inefficiency.
As you probably know, I focus a lot on efficiency. I like to get things done ASAP, using the bare minimum of resources.
And that approach works great when I’m dealing with inanimate Things like studying, coding, cleaning the house.
But human relationships don’t work like that.
For example, I used to think that the faster we could get through a team meeting, the better. If a 1-hour meeting took 20 minutes I’d say ‘great, that was super efficient. Let’s get back to work.’
But what I realised during our planning session is that people need time and space to speak their mind. With two whole days set aside, everyone loosened up and a whole bunch of minor (and occasionally major) issues came to light that we’d have missed under normal circumstances.
Potentially mission-critical stuff.
And if you want to run a happy, profitable, effective business (rather than one that just looks efficient) you have to make time for that to happen.
In short: human beings aren’t machines. If you want to be effective in your collaborations and relationships, you can’t focus exclusively on ‘getting things done ASAP’. You need to account for the human factor, even if it feels inefficient.
Have a great week!
Ali xx
生词记录
bounce 弹跳，反弹，跳动
roughly 大致，大概
paraphrase 意译，释义
effectiveness 有效性，效率
broadly 大体上
similar 类似，相似
approach 接近（v.） 方法，途径（n.）
inanimate 无生命的
loosened up 放松了
a whole bunch of minor(and occasionally major) issues
一堆微小的，有时是主要的问题
circumstances 形势，情况，环境
critical 批判，关键性，临界，危急，挑剔
collaborations 合作，协作
exclusively 专门，独家，独占
account 账号，账户，考虑，解释
文章概述
作者对高效的思考，他认为人类不是机器，不能仅仅专注在尽可能快地完成任务，还应充分考虑其他一些可能看起来浪费时间（低效率）的因素，这样才能更全面考虑，以免错过细节。
个人感悟
个人感觉就是说单纯的快不能算效率高，注重效率的同时更应注重质量，高质高效完成任务才是最佳选择，因此应给予人们充足的思考时间与空间。
