Parkinson's law says work expands to fill the time you give it. A woman delayed sending a postcard for months until forced to do it in minutes. The fix: assign explicit time limits to tasks and compress deadlines to force faster action.
Decrease the time you think about something.
To the time you act.
Parkinson's law is basically an old adage that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion. He tells the story of a woman.
Whose only task.
In a day was to send a postcard.
That should take a.
Busy person, I don't know, three minutes.
But the woman spent an hour finding the car, a half hour looking for glasses, 90.
Minutes riding the car, and on and on until.
Finally her day is filled.
Which is like a little bit funny, but something that we actually do in.
Real life as humans, too.
I write how long every task should take.
This is a 15 minute task.
This is a two hour task. And I asked my team continuously, how long did you spend on that? And so when you name the task, you limit the time that you can spend on the task.
And you set.
Yourself a deadline. You know how everybody always says, I'll get back to you about that next week? I don't allow that.
At my company or for myself.
How could we shrink seven days into 24 hours? Because that means I don't have to be smarter, richer, or better than any of my competition.
I'm just faster.
He wouldn't give you the dream if he didn't believe you had what it takes. You have what it takes.
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