Working more by working less
Coming back from vacation and reading about how to taking time off from work on the Harvard’s Discussion Leaders site was a pretty interesting coincidence. I don’t take enough holidays and when I do I end up occasionally checking email and reading blogs and what not.
Working too hard can be counter productive. If you’re exhausted it’s hard to be really effective. You don’t add any perspective or allow for any creative down time. Two examples in the post from HBSP hit this on the head. The first was Bear Sterns and how the CEO was working for 72 hours straight during some moments, that’s just setting yourself up for combustion. And having read that Clinton worked mother’s day and hasn’t taken any time off from the campaign trail didn’t make me admire her, it made me pity her.
Life is too short to work too hard. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t work smart or that you don’t out-perform the competition. It just means that you enjoy your down time so that you can make the most of your time at work. Not sure if I was able to do that last week, but I plan on doing more of that in the future.
