“This task you have asked me to do–do you really want me spending my time doing that?” When making assignments, it is easy for individuals in positions of power to take into account the apparent necessity of performing a task, but they often don’t have the resources to consider how the task might be the wrong task.
Photo: IsaacMao Spam is a hassle, no argument there. But many people suffer under the weight of a growing email inbox, and the messages piling up there aren’t spam. They’re emails that need answers, or emails that provide reminders of pieces of projects that need to get done, or emails that just haven’t found their way […]
The project facing you is huge. Complicated. Overwhelmingly immense. How do you respond? Terror? Anger? Procrastination? A Zen laugh? Photo: Yogi It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when you’re looking at the mountain in front of you. But exactly how you look at the tangle of tasks can make the difference between responding (i.e. acting) and merely reacting. […]