Working Hard - Chapter One - The Myth And The Basics - Part 2

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Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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It takes hard work to get ahead in your professional life. As you progress into more demanding roles, more is expected of you. To climb to the top, if that is what you aspire to do, takes an incredible amount of work. But it is a MYTH that “working hard” simply means working more hours. In fact, working more hours, in the long run, is NOT the way to think about “working hard.” In this series of guidance, we will lay out how to get the most out of yourself without constantly sacrificing your personal and family life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools.
0:02.0	This is Sarah.
0:04.0	And this is Kate.
0:05.0	Today's cast, Working Hard, Chapter 1, The Myth and the Basics, Part 2 of 2.
0:12.0	The questions this cast answers are, what are some ways I can get more work done?
0:17.0	Do I have to work longer hours to get ahead?
0:19.0	And how do highly productive professionals get so much done?
0:22.6	If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.
0:28.5	Before we get to it, managers, you can get better feedback with our effective feedback examples product available as part of the Manager Tools license.
0:37.1	Become a Manager Tools licensee
0:38.4	today. Check us out online at Manager-Tools.com. Now on to the show. Working hard does not mean
0:45.6	working longer hours. Full stop. Exactly. And that's a huge, huge myth that many managers or
0:53.2	maybe non-managers professionals generally tend to have.
0:57.8	And it's a sad state of affairs in our professional lives that the definition of hard work
1:03.7	has been simplified to something as trivial as working longer hours.
1:09.6	But it completely has. And it's ridiculous. But as often
1:15.4	happens in organizational life, it is easier to accept the common wisdom that hard work is long hours
1:23.7	because it appears wrongly that that's what it takes to get ahead. And that's the thing,
1:31.6	right? We see the people above us, other parts of the organization, those really, really
1:35.3	successful people, and we know that they're spending far more hours than we most likely are,
1:42.7	which leads you to kind of two different places. One, if I want to be that good,
1:48.0	I definitely have to work that kind of hours, but also if I want to cape that job, if I want to stay at
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