Isn’t it so easy to be caught up with the administrative side of work?
Finish the report by noon.
Submit this by 5 PM.
And while you’re finding yourself reacting to deadlines instead of proactively launching ideas and testing your hypothesis (yes, I work as a researcher), you begin to wonder who will benefit your work.
Are you simply checking off the list to earn a paycheck (because yes, we, the working class, work to eat, don’t we)?
Or are you doing your work because you believe someone needs it? Who benefits your work?
to produce great value at work is to create output that benefits others tremendously and that is done efficiently and with high quality.
From Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
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