Measure results, not hours
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Measure results, not hours
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#2Wow, this sounds like it came directly out of the ROWE playbook, http://www.gorowe.com/, something we practice at my job to much success.
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#3Carol Dweck says we should praise effort, not success, if we want people to love challenges and practice persistence.
So, praise effort, measure results, but don't worry about time spent at a desk.
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#4non mobile version: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/business/measure-results-n...
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#5>By applying an industrial-age mind-set to 21st-century professionals, many organizations are undermining incentives for workers to be efficient.
Every step of the American education system felt like this.
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#6The hourly rate thing has always bothered me. At my internship at Bloomberg the maximum amount of billable hours per week was 40 and usually they'd expect you to put in 8 hours a day. More often than not, I'd finish an assigned task before the day or week was through or I'd be 'direction blocked' where I would be waiting for approval in a design/architecture decision from my mentor or manager while they were busy with something else.
I would find side projects to work on, a form of '20% time', but I always felt really uncomfortable with the whole situation. Was I expected to forgo pay when there wasn't enough work for me? It was a really weird experience. It wasn't like I was a student working part time, I was living alone in NYC over the summer and had rent and food to pay for.
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#7Interesting timing. The NYTimes has a piece today on Dick Costolo[1] which mentions Peter Thiel talking about Twitter employees heading home early and how Costolo is staying at work late to get employees to do the same thing.
Even the leading companies/leading people in our industry seem to look at 'hours spent at work' as a signal of overall productivity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/technology/dick-costolo-of...
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#8"By emphasizing results rather than hours, I'm able to get home at 7 p.m. for dinner with my family nearly every night"
And, here, I assumed that by emphasizing results he meant getting home around 5...
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#9>By applying an industrial-age mind-set to 21st-century professionals, many organizations are undermining incentives for workers to be efficient. Every step of the American education system felt like this.
That's because the American educational system was set up by industrialists to produce a trained workforce, not for some sort of noble philosophical ideal of enlightenment. You'll note that none of the scions of industry attend public school.
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#10"In general, don't waste your time creating A-plus work when B-plus is good enough. Use the extra time to create A-plus work where it matters most."
I wish I did more of this ...