How to focus more on results — my thoughts

LESS MEETING MORE DOING — Jason Goldberg, Fab.com

We all know it. We allow meetings, talking, emailing — and sit back with the feeling of when is this ever going to be done?

Truth to be told: it’s not all our fault. There is also other people involved?

Let me give you the same challenge as I gave myself a few months back. Every time there is an event that need takes time from you, whether it is responding to an email, phone call or an actual meeting; then ask you self: “Is this needed?” or “Can we solve this problem without this interaction?”

It might be fair enough to have 2–4 email back and forth if it’s saving two meetings. But still — if it’s 10–20 emails with half a soccer team as Cc, maybe something can be done smarter?

Try to re-think you working processes. Can things be done differently?

Could I prepare the email to get more answer in the first round?

Is my perfectionism limiting me?

Try to think as efficient as possible, try to save time on every event in your day. 5 x 30 sec might turn out to be half an hour in the end — as each interruption takes your attention away from what you were working on.

Never forget; Even Outlook has an Offline-function, so you can get peace for 10 min to finish something. You can still read/write while you are offline, it’s just “pulling” the virtual wire out, so it won’t sent the emails you are writing before you go back “online”. You can probably say it’s Outlook’s answer on “Airplane mode”.

Please share your thoughts on this subject either here in the comments or feel free to drop me an email on jh@jannikhansen.co.uk