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In order to move from one task to another, we must effectively tell ourselves, “I want to do this now instead of that.” This process is known as “goal shifting” or “task shifting.” It creates something called “switching time,” which is the increment of time it takes us to move from one source of focus to another.
Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy • The Way We're Working Isn't Working
schedule employees for the same shift every week, provide at least 20 hours of work for a core group of staff, and allow employees to trade hours by using Shift Messenger, an app specifically designed for this purpose.17 The result? Compared with stores that did not participate in the ten-month experiment, labor productivity increased by 6.8 percen
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Speed changes everything
David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework
As Donella Meadows has said, “a small shift in one thing can produce big changes.” We have an opportunity to drive positive change because we influence the outcomes of the products and services we design that influence the behavior of people who use them.
Boxes and Arrows • Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking - Boxes and Arrows
A surprising number of projects are one small change away from succeeding. With your organizational privilege, relationships you’ve built across the company, and ability to see around corners derived from your experience, you can often shift a project outcomes by investing the smallest ounce of effort, and this is some of the most valuable work you... See more