Really efficient workers don't work nonstop all day, but take a leisurely walk and handle affairs with ease and pleasure.
Henry David Thoreau
People who are short of time work many hours every day. They always want to do as many things as possible in a limited time in a day. They will ignore the problem and call if they have any problems? Patch? Get over it.
Most companies still manage working hours, not bandwidth.
Although scarcity will bring us great pressure, we still need to focus on energy management and bandwidth cultivation. Increasing working hours, making employees work harder and giving up holiday opportunities are all manifestations of peeping psychology.
What really matters is to maximize the effective bandwidth, not the working time.
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The value of working long hours is overvalued. In order to finish the mountain of work, people have to work overtime, 10 hour and 12 hour a day, and 16 hour if they can't finish it.
It is said that China people are the most diligent people. Hardworking has always been an advantage that people are proud of, and diligence is regarded as a treasure. It seems that nothing is a problem. The most important thing is to be willing to pay and make great efforts.
No one can deny the value of diligence, but is it true that the busier the better, the busier the higher the output?
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About a century ago, Henry Ford realized the relationship between working hours and bandwidth. He set a 40-hour working week for workers, not only for profit, but also full of humanistic feelings.
He has conducted experiments for 12 years, which clearly shows that shortening the working hours from 10 hour to 8 hours and reducing the working days from 6 days to 5 days in a week can not only increase the total output of workers, but also reduce the production costs of enterprises.
It not only increases the total output of workers, but also reduces the production cost of enterprises. These two elements are very important for business operators. Henry Ford's observation and research lasted 12 years, and reached a completely different conclusion from what people thought: the longer the working hours, the better, and the better seven days a week.
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No time to play, no time to stare out the window, no time to observe and understand, no time to wait quietly.
All these will cause scarcity.
Scarce people are patching every day. Their thoughts and business are made up of a patched picture. If something goes wrong, they will rush to patch it. There is not enough bandwidth to think about strategy, determine direction and reflect.
Overwhelmed by overwork, people have to spend too much energy patching every day, and people have to deprive themselves of sleep time. People have no time to sleep, only time to work.
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But this is not the case.
The impact of sleep on productivity is amazing: scientific research has repeatedly confirmed that employees who lack sleep will become less motivated, make more mistakes and often feel dizzy.
A study investigated the beginning and end of daylight saving time, and the results truly reflected this. Because of the change of time, people will have sleep problems at night. On sleepless nights, people spend 20% more time on the Internet every hour.
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Many people can't sleep at night or don't want to sleep, but they can't get up in the morning. Even if they get up, they are depressed.
Because of the lack of deep sleep, the body did not get enough rest, and the pressure could not be released reasonably. When I work the next day, my brain is not in a clear and agile state, and I don't have enough bandwidth and ability to complete the task with high quality.
So the work is required to be reworked, and the work result is blamed, which affects the mood of the parties and then affects sleep, so a vicious circle.
When people don't have enough bandwidth, fluid intelligence and execution ability will be greatly reduced.
Do not have the ability of keen thinking, can not effectively restrain behavior.
On sleepless nights, people often wander on the internet, wasting time that should be used to repair body functions on meaningless things.
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A research team once described a 38-year-old married partner who was a partner in a large accounting firm and had four children:
He works 12- 14 hours a day and always feels exhausted. He found it difficult to devote himself wholeheartedly to the communication with his family at night, so he felt guilty and sad.
He has poor sleep quality, no time for exercise, and seldom eats healthy food. He always buys something casually when walking on the road, or sits at his desk and eats while working.
Are you familiar with the above scenes?
For what? Save? Time, in order to extend the working hours every day, in order to complete more work, people? Busy? I have no time to eat, exercise, sleep and seldom eat healthy food? ..
These are the reasons why people can't work efficiently.
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As the author of Scarcity mentioned: Although scarcity will bring us great pressure, we still need to focus on energy management and bandwidth cultivation.
Manage energy, including but not limited to having a good sleep and reducing overtime hours and frequency; Set aside time to eat well and enjoy delicious food instead of always stuffing junk food into your stomach; Exercise regularly and keep yourself in a state of physical and mental pleasure with aerobic exercise; Accompany children and family with high quality and enjoy family happiness.
All these will enable us to expand our bandwidth and make wise decisions.
A person's life is made up of big and small decisions. Increase the chances of making wise decisions and managing energy effectively, and success and happiness will follow.
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When bandwidth is burdened, people often fall into scarcity.
In a team, when someone is scarce, it is easy for other members of the team to fall into scarcity.
When bandwidth is burdened, it is easy to make a series of bad decisions, leading to more serious scarcity, which in turn will burden the bandwidth of others in the team.
It's like a domino effect, which started as a small problem and finally spread to all members.
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Conclusion:
It is important to manage energy and cultivate bandwidth, not to extend working hours indefinitely.
Many times, seemingly correct decisions and behaviors at one time are not conducive to the realization of strategic goals in a relatively long period of time.
Wisdom is embodied here.
Should we continue to patch, or should we take a long-term view and get things right from the beginning?
Do you try your best to extend the working hours to finish it? More? Work task, or the importance of taking time to think, reflect, observe and understand?
What really matters is to maximize the effective bandwidth, not the working time.
The author of Scarcity gives advice.