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Modern Mentor

493 - It's Not About the Tool, It's About the Workflow

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Before you start using a new tool, make sure that you aren't optimizing the trees and forgetting the forest. Read the transcript at https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/time-management/its-not-about-the-tool-its-about-the-workflow Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:08.0

Today's topic is why you shouldn't jump on the latest and greatest productivity tool, even if it's better than what you're using now.

0:14.0

Melvin was excited. As the Vice President of Infantry Management and Operational Systems Optimization of the Green Growing Things Plant Store, he loves that title, even though there really are only five employees,

0:24.9

total.

0:25.6

He just purchased a magical headset that will let him use augmented reality to see inventory

0:30.9

accounts that look like they float above the boxes of plant food.

0:34.6

Melvin is in seventh heaven.

0:36.4

No, I mean literally, the AR headset also lets him

0:39.4

superimpose angels and clouds and harps on everything he looks at. He may never return to the real

0:43.9

world again. Tools have an important place in working less and doing more, yet you'll notice

0:49.3

that I rarely mention tools in the podcast, and that's because adopting a new tool might lead to

0:54.4

increase productivity, followed by the complete collapse of your life, business hopes,

0:58.0

and dreams for the future. Instead of living a life of luxury with 24-carat gold toilets,

1:01.9

you'll end up in a gutter, swigging down rat-grot. No, not even rot-gut, just rat-grot.

1:08.6

Ick. And that's because what matters isn't the tools that you use.

1:12.7

What matters is how your overall workflow produces results.

1:17.3

Have you ever listened closely to how people discuss their choice of smartphone?

1:20.5

Mine has more pixels than yours.

1:22.5

Well, mine can last longer.

1:24.3

Yeah, mine's bigger.

1:26.0

You know what?

1:26.7

This is one area where size doesn't matter. What

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