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The
Efficiency Expert
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By Ken Chapman, Ph.D.
Ken Chapman & Associates, Inc.
An efficiency expert once concluded his lecture with the comment, “Please
don’t try these techniques at home.”
“Why not?” he was asked.
“I used to watch my wife prepare breakfast and wondered why she made so
many trips to the table carrying only one item at a time,” he replied. “One
day I asked her, ‘Wouldn’t it be quicker and more efficient if you organized
yourself to carry several things to the table at once?’ “
“Did it work?” he was asked.
“Oh yes, it worked,” the expert replied. “It used to take my wife twenty
minutes to prepare breakfast, now I do it in seven.”
Not all advice is readily received and sometimes
it is not heard the way it was intended. But neither should all advice be
followed. Rather, wisdom learns to separate kernels of truth from merely
weeds.
For more information about Ken
Chapman and Associates’ Leadership Development Programs, contact Ken Chapman
at 205.366.0265 or email Ken at
kchapman@leaderscode.com.
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