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There's a saying I learned in shooting that applies to most physical activities/sports. "Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast." It also applies to working as part of
by fredophile 4y ago
There's a saying I learned in shooting that applies to most physical activities/sports. "Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast." It also applies to working as part of an aorganization. Process and bureaucracy might make you slower as an individual contributer but still speed up the organization.
- kqr 4y agoThere's an important qualifier to that saying: it only applies if the motion is relevant to the task at hand. Smoothly doing the dishes will not make your shooting faster. That might sound obvious, but it's not always. Having commonly used tools on a central toolboard instead of at each workbench makes it seem like part of the task to go to the toolboard, when in practise it's an irrelevant wasteful side-task. You can improve how smoothly (quickly) you go to the toolboard, but the improvement in speed comes from moving the tools to the workbenches again. Likewise, smoothly doing paperwork of the sort we're discussing here will make your paperwork faster but it won't improve your first-order work.