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Trim, Edit, Compress, Simplify, Improve….
Monday, January 21, 2008
“Beware, lest you loose the substance by grasping at the shadow”- Aesop
Your activities cannot take the same amount of time it took sometime back. You need to constantly innovate and find out how to do the same thing in a different, but more effective way. We need to believe that work and time are not directly proportional.
More work need not mean more time. This is possible only by being flexible in the process of our working. We should be focused on our goal and be flexible in our approach to reach the same. This is possible only if we are willing to trim, compress, simplify and improve our approach.
Recently I came across an interesting skill called ‘competitive intelligence’. In simple terms it means collecting intelligence from our competitors to know how they are better than us in what they are doing and applying the same to our work.
You should watch others performing and notice in what way their approach is better than yours. We do it day in and day out observing competitors websites, but somewhere we are not following the same competitor intelligence with in our organization. We should also apply the same thing in our personal lives.
If you are a trainer, watch how others are training. If you are a manager, watch how other managers are managing their work and teams. Take the best processes from others and then apply the same to your job.
Keep an open mind to learn from others; seniors, peers and even juniors. Somebody said that mind is like a parachute and it works only if it opens! Innovation and improvements apply not only to organizations but also applies to individuals in the organization. Consider the whole world as a large university where you can learn a lot from others.
This mindset not only gives you the much needed variety, but also takes the boredom from your job.
Your activities cannot take the same amount of time it took sometime back. You need to constantly innovate and find out how to do the same thing in a different, but more effective way. We need to believe that work and time are not directly proportional.More work need not mean more time. This is possible only by being flexible in the process of our working. We should be focused on our goal and be flexible in our approach to reach the same. This is possible only if we are willing to trim, compress, simplify and improve our approach.
Recently I came across an interesting skill called ‘competitive intelligence’. In simple terms it means collecting intelligence from our competitors to know how they are better than us in what they are doing and applying the same to our work.
You should watch others performing and notice in what way their approach is better than yours. We do it day in and day out observing competitors websites, but somewhere we are not following the same competitor intelligence with in our organization. We should also apply the same thing in our personal lives.
If you are a trainer, watch how others are training. If you are a manager, watch how other managers are managing their work and teams. Take the best processes from others and then apply the same to your job.
Keep an open mind to learn from others; seniors, peers and even juniors. Somebody said that mind is like a parachute and it works only if it opens! Innovation and improvements apply not only to organizations but also applies to individuals in the organization. Consider the whole world as a large university where you can learn a lot from others.
This mindset not only gives you the much needed variety, but also takes the boredom from your job.
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