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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

[Preview] The Unmistakable Creativity Hour | Productivity vs Effectiveness

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Being productive and effective are two very different things. Productivity is all about getting things done, regardless of the outcome. Effectiveness, on the other hand, is the ability to achieve set goals or desired results. In this episode we talk about the difference and how to make sure you don't confuse one for the other.


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0:00.0

This reminds me of industrial revolution learnings,

0:03.4

you know, when the industrial revolution happened

0:05.4

and they were working to discover like,

0:07.7

how can we get the most productivity out of our workers?

0:11.2

And the funny analogy that I remember reading

0:15.4

or hearing about was they went,

0:18.0

like people actually came with clipboards, right?

0:20.0

And they're watching brick layers

0:21.7

who are building a house, for example.

0:24.0

And they're noting that the brick layer is bending down

0:26.3

to pick up a brick and then taking the brick

0:28.3

and then putting it on the wall

0:29.8

and, you know, after scraping the cement on it

0:31.5

or whatever the process is, right?

0:33.7

And then bending back down and picking up another brick

0:35.8

and they said, they got some clipboards.

0:37.8

What if we bring the bricks to the level of the brick layer?

0:41.7

We build like a table that like brings them up

0:45.4

so that they don't have to bend over?

0:47.6

That simple alteration, right?

0:51.5

Getting the brick at the right height

0:54.2

made the brick layer twice or three times as productive.

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