Continuous improvement is critical to our ability to grow, both as individuals and organizations. Whether it’s to drive higher levels of productivity/performance, responding to changes in our customers or markets, addressing new opportunities, or anything else. We have to constantly be assessing what we do, who we do it to/with, how and why we do these things—and how we improve and do more.
It’s easy to fill our days with activities, but activities with an express focus and goal are different.
It’s easy to continue doing those activities because the goal becomes the activity, not how the activity contributes to what we are trying to achieve.
Technology has made it easier and easier to do more, yet at the same time we find that we are, perhaps proportionally or in reality, achieving less and less. But we continue….
AI/LLMs have amplified our ability to do the easy, yet we often have little understanding the answers provided and what they really mean.
Yet these tools, technology, AI/LLMs can make us so much better, but doing so may not be easy. It requires thinking about how they help use more effectively achieve our goals.
Those committed to easy and those committed to growth and improvement use the same tools in very different, and what they produce is very different.
Easy never addresses better, it only looks for easier.
The goal of easy is least effort exerted in doing a task.
Easy is absent purpose, direction, growth, learning and goal attainment.
Easy doesn’t mean we aren’t busy, but it could indicate fill our time with meaningless activities.
We confuse simple with easy, yet they couldn’t be further apart.
Simple requires deep understanding. It is purposeful and goal directed. It requires constant learning, refinement and improvement. It focuses on achieving a goal in the most effective, efficient, impactful way possible.
Few focus on simple, because it is not easy.
Easy requires little accountability. All one has to do is the task assigned, caring little about the outcomes achieved.
Where is the challenge, joy, feeling of purposefulness/achievement in being committed to easy?
But possibly, those committed to easy simply don’t care.
One cannot pursue excellence when committed to easy.
But one can achieve mediocrity, easily.
Easy is, ultimately, a choice. Choose well.
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