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Motivational Stories for Leaders
 

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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