Efficiency by leap-frogging
Efficiency by leap-frogging
You spend time figuring out how to get things done faster… you try better processes… your experience helps you get your job done using fewer steps, lesser thought. What once took you an hour to accomplish, today takes you 50 minutes. You know it and you get it done faster… Quickly, with few mistakes.
We often mistake this for efficiency….
Attaining a state where you are good at what you do, is highly desirable. The problem with such a state is, often times, it becomes second nature to us and we stop thinking about why we do what we do. The question “is it even necessary” eludes us?
Wikipedia defines Efficiency as “the ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result”.
The catch word is “without waste”.
In that context, efficiency may best be achieved by avoiding a portion of what you are otherwise (used to) doing to accomplish the results that you need to. There is wastage in practically every process. It is measurable using one metric or the other. The challenge is in being able to identify the avoidable portions of our work.
While gaining greater speed, automation, delegation and reducing errors are excellent ways of gaining efficiency, leap-frogging is probably the best.
Intelligence and becoming really good at your job is about identifying the steps that you can avoid doing altogether. This does not only mean avoiding those steps. It could be taking the time to build the baseline constructs that can be used as a pre-packaged set that then helps avoid going through those steps every single time.
Most people take the time to do things over and over. They do not take the time to do it right the first time.
The most efficiency, often times is attained by leap-frogging portions of your required steps to realize major gains. Take the time to see what you could avoid doing. Increase your efficiency exponentially!
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