Very interesting blog on leadership and work. It basically flips the puritan work ethic on it's head and says that if work is too hard, do something else. Do something you find effortless -- you'll be more successful, enjoy work more, and be less stressed out.
If knowledge-work activity takes great effort and determination, that must mean one or more of these descriptions apply:
- It’s something you have never done before, you are not competent in doing it, or you lack the know-how and training required. Basically, you are out of your depth.
- It’s something you haven’t done for a long time, so you are extremely rusty. Once again, this means you are not competent.
- You hate doing whatever it is, you have no interest or aptitude for it, and you are only involved because you have no choice. As a result, you are likely to be unmotivated as well as incompetent.
http://www.slowleadership.org/
