The document discusses concepts around being effective versus efficient and how to focus on the important tasks. Some key points discussed include:
- Effectiveness means doing things that help achieve goals, while efficiency means completing tasks in the most economical way regardless of importance.
- The Pareto principle (80/20 rule) suggests focusing on the 20% of efforts that cause 80% of problems/results.
- Parkinson's law states that work expands to fill the time available, so limiting time helps focus on important tasks.
- Identifying critical tasks and scheduling them with short deadlines helps avoid focusing on unimportant tasks.
- One should regularly ask if they are being productive or just active, and avoiding inventing
4. BEING EFFECTIVE vs BEING EFFICIENT
Effectiveness is doing the things that
get you closer to your goals.
Efficiency is performing a given task
(whether important or not) in the most
economical manner possible.
Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the
default mode of the universe.
5. BEING EFFECTIVE vs BEING EFFICIENT
1. Doing something
unimportant well does not
make it important!
2. Requiring a lot of time does
not make a task important!
What you do is infinitely more
important than how you do it!
6. pareto 80/20
1. Which 20% of efforts are causing
80% of my problems and
unhappiness?
2. Which 20% of efforts are resulting in
80% of my desired outcomes and
excitement?
Being overwhelmed is often as
unproductive as doing nothing!
7. Most things make
no difference.
Being busy is a form of
laziness – lazy thinking
and indiscriminate action.
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8. Believe it or not, it is
not only possible to
accomplish more by
doing less,
it is mandatory!
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9. We spend too much time with those who poison
us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations
of themselves and the world.
It is often the case that you have to fire certain
friends or retire from particular social circles to
have the life you want.
This is not being mean; it is being practical!
Poisonous people do not deserve your time.
To think otherwise is masochistic.
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10. THEKILLERCOMBINATION
Limit tasks to
the important
to shorten
work time*
Shorten work
time to limit
tasks to the
important**
*PARETO 80/20
**PARKINSON’S LAW
11. THEKILLERCOMBINATION
Identify the few critical
tasks that contribute
most to goals achievement
and schedule them with very
short and clear deadlines.
If you don’t do this the unimportant
becomes important!
12. “ Important action is
often uncomfortable
because there is a
chance of failure or
rejection.
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13. THEKEYQUESTIONS
Am I being productive
or just active?
Am I inventing things to do
to avoid the important?
Most of the things we do are useless when compared
with the goals we want to achieve, and time is wasted
in proportion to the amount that is available!
14. THEDAILYQUESTION
If this is the only
thing I accomplish
today, will I be satisfied
with my day?
Avoid doing more to feel productive
when actually accomplishing less!
16. MEMBERS ARE DISENGAGED
Members fail to see the
link between
organizational strategy
and their own activities.
They may feel they can’t decline or
renegotiate requests, and they end up
overcommitting and running away.
17. MY LC LACKS AGILITY
Leaders are slow to capture
emerging opportunities
because they try to come to
complete agreement in their
assessments and strive for
perfect solutions.
18. TRAPPED IN THE STATUS QUO
Leaders articulate a new
strategy, but the
organization continues in its
old ways, or executes well in
crisis mode but lapses into
old routines once the crisis
has passed.
20. 1. Is there a distinctive and disruptive sense of purpose that sets you apart
from the competition? What ideas is your LC fighting for?
2. Can you be provocative without provoking a backlash?
3. If your LC went out of business tomorrow, who would miss you and
why?
4. Are you the kind of person that other smart people want to work with?
What draws people in?
5. Can you make performance fun? Can you make your architecture
colorful, dramatic, and energetic?
6. Do you treat different customers differently?
7. Why should great people join your LC or buy your products?
8. Do you know a great person when you see one? Are you scared of them?
9. Does your organization work as distinctively as it says it does?
10. Are you learning as fast as it is needed?
21. 1. EP Recruitment every second week.
2. Targeted-based recruitment (by projects, by countries, by
backgrounds).
3. Brand every recruitment differently, detached from AIESEC
Brand.
4. Short term teams for OGX ICX with clear settled goals.
5. Showcasing (Vlog? BFIE)
6. Twitter hashtags (#IndiaExportsTalent #ImGoingAbroad
#fromIndia2theWorld #BFIE) Choose one and stick to it!
Measure, showcase it!
7. EP Recruitment in TechSchools for Programmers & Web
developers (CEED Program?)
8. Returnees/Trainees as part of processes? Make them
AIESECers (BFIE)
WHAT WILL BE OUR NEXT STEPS?