Often more productive people spend less time working

Summary

• Productive workers ofter are more efficient with their use of time

Details

• unproductive workers are often working against deadlines and end up working long hours
• they may also take on more than they can reasonably accomplish

References

• Secrets of Productive People - 50 Techniques To Get Things Done - Mark Forster

Quotes

If you compare the amount of work which productive and non-productive people do, you may be surprised to discover that non-productive people frequently put in more hours of work than productive people. This is because the productive person keeps up to date and therefore is not continually struggling to meet looming deadlines. They put in exactly the amount of work necessary to deliver comparatively few projects, while the unproductive person tends to work less time than is really needed on a comparatively large number of projects. The resulting pressure of partially completed projects causes them to work longer hours in total.

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