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Eliminating 'Good' Work
mike_murray | Oct 24 2006
I posted this to my blog recently, but I was wondering about what you all think about it. I was on a GTD Connect teleseminar recently when the interviewee said that the key to doing "great" work was to reduce (through improving efficiency) the amount of time spent doing "good" work. ([url="http://www.episteme.ca/cblog/index.php?/archives/29-Compressing-Good-Work.html"]More detail here[/URL]) I've been pondering that one a lot lately, and I was wondering if anybody here has some stories about doing that effectively - is there a time when you can remember having a week or two of supreme effectiveness because you reduced the amount of "good" work that you were doing? -Mike 1 Comment
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 I keep running thru the...Submitted by noodle on November 6, 2006 - 9:58pm.
I keep running thru the forums and always stopping here. This one sticks in my brain. It just resonates that you'd start stripping the mediocre and the better stuff would come through. Quote:
I've been pondering that one a lot lately, and I was wondering if anybody here has some stories about doing that effectively - is there a time when you can remember having a week or two of supreme effectiveness because you reduced the amount of "good" work that you were doing? I can't say that I have yet. The idea is definitely intriguing. And I think it must follow that as I keep GTDing, this will come about. But I'm there yet. Not by a long shot. » POSTED IN:
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