I guess everyone has read "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", and today they are doing the opposite.
In other words, with the prevalence of 996, many companies have implemented various mandatory overtime measures in order to improve team output, but the results are not satisfactory. So, how can you improve employee productivity? The answer is to build a results-oriented corporate culture and develop the skills of employees to work efficiently.
Let's think in reverse, instead of directly telling you how to improve work efficiency, but start with the 7 behavioral habits that cause inefficiency, avoiding inefficient behavior, and not far from high efficiency.
First, I only know how to work overtime and take credit for hard work
Since Ali announced that 996 is a blessing, working overtime has become a politically correct thing. A project manager with "experience" will say when the project fails, we have worked overtime so much, and the project still fails, there is really no other way. This kind of statement seems to have been understood by many leaders. Failure to review the underlying reasons behind project failures caused the team to make the same mistakes repeatedly without improvement, artificially causing a collective inefficiency .
As Jason Fried describes in his book Rework: "Work obsession is one of the 'good things' celebrated in corporate culture. We know that workaholics love Staying up all night, working overtime, and even laying a floor in the office. These people are proud of dying in the project, and for them, no matter how heavy the workload is. Workaholics often miss the point, and they spend a lot of time doing work. To solve problems, they think they can rely on brute force to make up for the inertia of thinking, and the result is tossing a bunch of rough and useless solutions.”
To sum up, working overtime for a long time is to use diligence to cover up the performance of inefficiency. Working overtime all the time, where there is no time to think and practice, not only ruins the body, but also the really important things-the way of thinking and cognition cannot be upgraded and iterated.
As long as the work is not labor-intensive, this habit of using overtime to cover up lazy thinking should be corrected as soon as possible. Moreover, the workplace status earned by accumulating working hours will be replaced sooner or later.
Second, repeat 1 year of work experience for 10 years
On the road of self-improvement, it is easy for most people to walk around in circles, and even after walking for a long time, they will not be able to get out of the one-acre three-point land in front of them. I read a report before that a toll station employee of a state-owned enterprise had worked for 10 years and was about to leave the system to find opportunities, but her only skill was cash register. One can imagine how bumpy her road to job hunting was.
As Liang Ning, a well-known product person, said, if you want to manage yourself as a product, or even a small and micro enterprise, you are your own CEO. Then, you will think, what is the general trend of the industry? What kind of soft power and hard power do you have? What value can you provide to your customers (colleagues, supervisors, bosses)? Are these values worth your salary? How to improve yourself and make your company more valuable?
When we build ourselves as a product, our way of thinking has changed, and it is easier to face up to the shortcomings of the "self" product, let go of the hypocritical "self", expand the boundaries of our abilities in a peaceful mood, and continue to iterate and upgrade .
Third, the granularity of the plan is too coarse
Professionals have the habit of making plans, but the completion rate of the plans is mostly unsatisfactory. There is a saying on the Internet that 100% of the plan is completed by the master, 70% of the plan is completed by the elite, 50% of the plan is completed by the elite, 30% of the plan is completed by normal people, and 10% of the plan is completed by me before .
Someone once said half-jokingly: "The plan for 2020: get the arrangements that were originally scheduled to be completed in 2018 in 2019, not for anything else, just to fulfill the promise of completing the 2016 plan in 2017." Although it is a joke However, it profoundly reveals the cruel truth of "tomorrow will be tomorrow, and there will be so many tomorrows".
So how can it be improved? It's very simple, just replace the coarse-grained plan with a fine-grained plan, decompose and then decompose. For example, the plan of communicating requirements with developers can be decomposed into meeting with development colleagues in the rest area at 5 pm to discuss in detail the display of the feed stream of version 5.0. The requirement is to display ten messages on the home page of the App, the first five messages are arranged according to the number of readings, and the last five are arranged according to the number of comments...
How about it, isn't it very visual? Although you need to write a few more lines when making a plan, the brain only needs to execute it according to the instructions when executing it, which can greatly save precious cognitive resources. The way the brain processes tasks is single-threaded, either "think about what to do" or "act now". Naturally, "act now".
Fourth, crazy "input" but never "output"
On the topic of how to learn efficiently, here is only a concept. Today, with the extremely developed network, there are many valuable learning materials. Whether it is reading articles or books, listening to audio or taking online classes, it is a very good way to learn. However, through these methods of learning, how effective is your mastery and application of knowledge? I am afraid that most people will say that after spending a lot of money, they always feel that they have not improved themselves much. What's the problem? The answer is that the learning method is not efficient enough.
Among the many learning methods, the Feynman learning method is an efficient learning method widely recognized all over the world. The so-called Feynman learning method is that when you learn a new knowledge, imagine yourself as a teacher, and use the simplest, plain and straightforward words to express complex and profound knowledge. It is best not to use industry terms, so that non-industry people I can also understand. To achieve this effect, it is best to imagine that you are speaking to an 80-year-old or 8-year-old child, and even they can understand it. For example, if you claim to be a technical expert, try to explain blockchain, edge computing, and atomic computing to laymen, and see if you can explain it in a few words? If you think about it carefully, it is actually not easy to do.
Fifth, the goal is ambitious, but the action lags behind
Perfection is the enemy of doneness. The pursuit of perfection is originally a cool thing in this world, but unfortunately it has become a shield for procrastination. Take writing programs as an example. The author has always wanted to write a JAVA Web development framework and open source it, but whenever I do it, I always feel that the architecture layering is not done well and the code structure is not elegant, so it has been delayed.
On the other hand, those who do not seek to achieve 100 points, but first achieve 80 points or even 60 points, the gap has been widened. A good friend of the author released his own development framework on GitHub, and continued to iterate according to the feedback from netizens. Now he has gained hundreds of stars and has been used by tens of thousands of developers to build simple projects. His personal influence has also grown of promotion.
Therefore, the first-mover advantage is very important. There is nothing in the world that can be successful after being thought out perfectly. Instead of entangled in the details, it is better to act first, to break the situation first, build a rough framework, and then it will not be too late to optimize and upgrade step by step.
In short, the more you want the result to be perfect, the farther you will be from completion.
Sixth, wasting time on ineffective social interaction
Human beings had social interactions before language was invented. Unfortunately, most people in the workplace do not understand that many social interactions are actually ineffective social interactions. What is social ineffectiveness? If there is no roughly equivalent value exchange when interacting with the other party, it is ineffective social interaction. The essence of social networking is an exchange, which can be money, resources, contacts, feelings, etc.
There are two common forms of ineffective social interaction: the other party can't provide you with value, but you can't bear to talk to him (her); you can't provide the other party with value, but you can't help but want to hug your thigh. The former is called "unclear", and the latter is called "curry".
We often see all kinds of "posting" in the circle of friends. For example, some people often post that they are glamorous and glamorous at the dinner party with the boss, but I think this is a typical invalid social interaction. In my opinion, this approach can easily lead people into the illusion of "I know a lot of big shots, so I am also a big shot", which especially affects the accumulation of self-cognition and self-strength. Moreover, thinking that exchanging a business card and eating a meal can win the favor and support of the boss, the truth is only one sentence: When you are useless, it is useless to know anyone.
Therefore, if you have the time to take photos with big bosses and change business cards, it is better to do business in a down-to-earth manner, read a few more books in your spare time, develop your ability, and strive to provide some value for the big boss one day, and both sides will get what they need , you don't have to "fawn", and the boss will not despise you, win-win.
Seventh, there will be no rest
Work is to make money, and rest is to accumulate strength to make more money. It's a pity that not everyone can rest. I used to love to work overtime. In order to reward myself for my hard work, I usually lie at home for two days on weekends. However, on Mondays, I still have no work status. This is what is often called "weekend syndrome" in the workplace. affect work efficiency. It turns out that I am a person who will not rest. I once read in a book that for mental workers, the rest of the brain is the real rest, while many people are just resting their bodies.
The brain is a "big eater" that only accounts for 2% of the body weight, but consumes 20% of the body's energy. Moreover, what is frustrating is that the energy it consumes is not used to "do business", but a lot of it is spent in a brain circuit called "Default Mode-Network (DMN)".
DMN will automatically perform basic operations when the brain is not performing conscious activities, just like a car idling in neutral, wasting gas money in vain. As long as it is not suppressed, it will continuously eat up the energy of the brain, making the brain exhausted, and no amount of sleep can relieve it.
The "mindful breathing method" can really let the brain rest, and the specific method will not be expanded. When you feel tired, you might as well take five minutes to do it to refuel your brain.
Those are the 7 Habits of Ineffective People. If you can avoid the above inefficient behaviors and habits in your daily work, I believe you will be able to quickly improve your ability and become a highly effective person in the workplace with twice the result with half the effort.