Game in the Brain

Its easy for people to make recommendations, I do that everyday. These days i realized and appreciate the problems business faces in making changes. From changing from one system to the next, there is a time where you build up to that change and since a business is at “equilibrium” with its current system it needs to spend extra effort and hours building up to the change.

This building up takes many forms. It can be organizing your system, creating a new database, training, studying up on the new system, testing the new system etc. So there is a whole lot of resources that goes into shifting.

Everyone wants to hit and maintain their equilibrium. The few smart ones, found an equilibrium in change and evolution. In their time at work they spend 30-40% of their most productive hours do the best work they can do. This large chunk of time serve 2 purposes, they are your bread and butter and they are the best tests of your ability (so they serve to gather more experience). the 20-30% is in the day to day work in lower value but necessary work like documentation, reports, coordination and communication. They then spend 20-30% in tinkering, experimenting, mentoring or studying.

As organization gets bigger and more process oriented change becomes slower, but every move is done with greater certainty and a mastery of managing risks.

I’ve come to realize, that in work you have to spend 9-10 hours working. But as you get better you only spend that much time working 4 days a week. The other 14% of your week (since you already spend 45-50 hours in the first 4 days; your 5th day is a sane work hour of 8 or less) is improving your relationships and spending quality time with people you work with. (i’m only talking about work hours in a week; I got this from my boss).

We move to the equilibrium of constantly moving forward. Our talent, circumstance and priorities determine the “rate of acceleration”.