?Nothing is Less Productive Than Doing What Should Not Be Done at All?
 

The above quote comes from Peter Drucker, a management consultant who wrote on running businesses for the better part of the 20th century.

It's easy to get bogged down in doing things faster, better, and more efficiently. However, it's all for nothing if the thing we're trying to accomplish isn't going to provide any real benefit in the long run. Becoming awesome at a dead-end job, perfecting your toothpick sculpture on your lunch break, or even crafting the perfect comment on a blog might not be worth doing if there's no larger goal that doing those things will help you reach.

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all." | Experience Life

http://lifehacker.com/nothing-is-les...-not-913219214

Think a lot of people around here could learn from that right about now...

Too true!

love peter druckers stuff!

Larry bossidy and Ram Charan are also pretty good!

I wish I were better than what I am.

Instead, I'm stuck here, writing naughty text for dirty, dirty websites.

My father changed Cicero for Peter Drucker on his bookshelf. I was disappointed.

I've never read this guy but just from this excerpt he has a narrow view of life, there's more to life for many than some goal of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 'Life is a journey, not a destination.'

Non-productive moments can be your most pleasurable and memorable. Crafting the perfect comment on a blog may bring somebody a lot more satisfaction than spending that time on some task that is part of completing some more important project that at the end of your life you may not even remember.

Lifehacker has become such shit since they started to think that they were writers and knew something about something besides narrow technology areas.

It makes me want to puke reading their pablum psychology mental "tricks" for bullshit they know nothing about. IMHO they are a good example of why journalists don't like bloggers.

Bah, whatever.

the problem is the bigger picture is often too hard to see. just maybe that toothpick sculpture you've been perfecting on your lunch break gets noticed by someone and you end up a professional or something else that could be rewarding.

i mean, i get what he's saying, but it just begs the question- what matters in the big picture.