Tag: "perfectionist"

Time fracking and radical new notions of productivity

| June 26, 2012 | Comments (0)
Time fracking and radical new notions of productivity

The “do more with less” assumes that there is a significant quantity of “wasted” time yet to be wrung from the average worker. It assumes that you can agglomerate all those unused ergs and semi-ergs into chunks of usable time and effort. Extraction requires aggressive measures to reap that last little bit of productivity. In fact, it’s not unlike a violent mining process known as fracking.

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Perfecting your career to death. Why it’s time women lowered their standards

| February 17, 2012 | Comments (3)
Perfecting your career to death. Why it’s time women lowered their standards

The better you do something, the better the chances of success. Correct? We’ve been told that since kindergarten; do better, cross those “t”s, dot those “i”s. Few would argue that excellence brings rewards. So research that shows that girls tend to be better students than boys,that they grow up into women who are better at following the rules in business should translate into better career advancement for women compared to men.

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