Bobby MoestaInnovator, Entrepreneur, Professor and Advisor

DON'T BE TOO EFFICIENT #shorts #jobstobedone #jtbd #innovators #productdevelopment #entrepreneurs

20 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this short, Bobby Moesta cites a Peter Drucker quote that warns against being efficient at tasks that don’t need to be done. He argues that true effectiveness requires leaving space for continual improvement, recommending that up to 20% of effort be allocated to product refinement. Moesta critiques the healthcare and education systems for becoming overly efficient, which he says hampers their ability to be effective. He emphasizes understanding the purpose behind actions—creating real impact—rather than obsessing over narrow efficiency metrics.

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So talking about Peter Drucker, one of the things, one of his quotes I really love is, he says, there's nothing worse than trying to be efficient about something that doesn't need to be done at all. Something you need to do to make yourself effective is you need to leave room for improvements all the time. I would say budgeting up to 20% of your efforts to constantly improving your product. To be honest, I feel like this is part of the problem with both the healthcare system and education is that they've become so efficient that they actually can't be effective. So make sure that you understand what effective means— having the effect, being able to create the causes, being able to understand the real purpose of why you're there. But don't get so myopic on efficiencies that you lose the fact of what you want to be doing is being effective.