Be lazier!
“I always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Bill Gates
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Be lazier!
Did you know that Bill Gates’ strategy for recruiting the right developers was to look for someone lazy, and ambitious?
His reasoning was that an ambitious person who is driven to succeed but inherently lazy is likely to be super-efficient in what they do. Chances are they will avoid doing unnecessary work wherever possible and look for ways to be effective rather than busy, strategic rather than hardworking. Things like copying existing code rather than writing new stuff, finding system shortcuts and building on the experience of others rather than starting from scratch.
Makes you think, doesn’t it? It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that busyness is good, yet as leaders it’s good to question how we can be “lazier” in the way we work, and generate bigger and more effective outcomes.
So, here’s wishing you a deeply lazy, super-efficient, highly effective week.
