{"id":1863,"date":"2017-11-30T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cwa.ggl.mybluehost.me\/fireandshield.com\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2024-02-28T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:56:17","slug":"busy-being-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/busy-being-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Being Busy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe it is not a coincidence that the words \u201dbusyness\u201d and \u201dbusiness\u201d are so close. If your working day is marathon length yet done in full sprint, you may not stop to consider if you are being productive or just running in a hamster wheel along with everyone else. Could you be so busy and still be wasting everybody\u2019s time and the customer\u2019s money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Kotter calls this \u201cfalse sense of urgency\u201d \u2013 for inspiration you can check out\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U5802FBaMSI\" target=\"_blank\">this video (5 min)<\/a>. It signifies that the organization is occupying itself with numerous activities that do not generate true value. We also call this \u201cBad Fire\u201d \u2013 you think you are generating output, executing plans, reaching goals and showing determination when in reality you are just generating more non-value adding work for your colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s take CC-emails for one. How many of those do you get a day? Do you read them? File them? Comment on them? A great first step is critically considering who you should put in CC. (Hint: if your CC-list is long, chances are you are working in a politic organization with \u201clow Shield\u201d, which means you spend precious time scheming that could be spend working).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another indicator are meetings. Those you call, and those you join. Do they generate value? Or are you just meeting the same people you sat with yesterday on a new subject, that might even have been dealt with then? Value doesn\u2019t come from meetings. It comes from sharing information and involving others in decisions that affects their areas of responsibility. Do it smart. Be clear on your goals and messages. Decide. Send people out to get things done in stead of mainly talking about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are strongly in favor of not wearing &#8220;busy&#8221; as a badge of honor. Great leaders such as you should be better and beyond this. Neither do it nor reward it. This would also end the game of exhaustion where last man\/woman standing gets the promotion. In other words: Don&#8217;t let busyness get in the way of business!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it is not a coincidence that the words \u201dbusyness\u201d and \u201dbusiness\u201d are so close. If your working day is marathon length yet done in full sprint, you may not stop to consider if you are being productive or just running in a hamster wheel along with everyone else. Could you be so busy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nyheder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandshield.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}