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Originally Posted by Orecle  I guess the same can be applied to business, when You are working on high quality projects, you put in long hours for a couple mths, then when the product is released you pull back on the hours. |
I also recommend that you read Edward de Bono's book "Simplicity". You might learn a few useful tricks there.
Very often, people who work hard are people who have lost control of their project / work / game / task. They are working hard because they have lost control, and all kinds of complications are arising, and they need to deal with those complications.
People who have the brains and skill to keep good control need not work so hard.
You can see so many instances of this, in everyday life. Eg some corporate meetings stretch on and on for hours, because the chairman of the meeting doesn't know how to get people to focus on the key issues. So the meeting spins on and on, people aren't sure what they are supposed to do or say; and they keep talking and talking, and a lot of it is irrelevant, and time is wasted on idle chatter, random meanderings, interpersonal bickering etc etc and it takes three hours to conclude the meeting.
In the hands of a more capable chairman, the agenda is clear; the issues are identified; the feedback is effectively gathered; the next steps are clearly identified; the communication is in simple, direct language; people understand what needs to be done. Within 30 minutes, the meeting accomplishes a lot.
You may say that the people who sat through the 3-hour meeting had "worked hard". The truth is that the people who did the 30-minute meeting accomplished more.