In these times, the most important thing for anyone who participates or manages a business is productivity. Today, we talk about the most common excuses for not being productive, and how you can deal with them.
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One of the most common excuses for not doing a job (usually one that could earn you a promotion) is that you won't be able to do a good job. You have probably used this excuse, even if you did not use it directly with your boss.
On many occasions, this excuse is used when you get home and explain to your partner that you have been offered a position of more responsibility, or when you have been commissioned with a project a little more complicated than the previous ones..
This excuse is easy to solve: You don't have to do a good job..
Surprised? Obviously, you have to do your best, as well as you can. But your superiors already count on the fact that the first time you do a new job, you will not do it like someone with ten years of experience..
Therefore, the first excuse is disarmed.
Another fairly common excuse is that they won't appreciate your input. Obviously, we are talking about the bosses. And we talk about situations in which you come up with an idea that could be positive for the company, but that is not directly related to your work.
For example, you may be working on a machine and detect that, with a small fix on the machine, the speed at which the machine works can be increased (it is a simple example, there are a thousand more examples of this type).
There are two types of people: Those who at the end of the day go to the boss's office and explain it to him, and those who don't. And, indeed, they may not appreciate your contribution and do not value it. That is not in your hand.
In fact, your idea may be a bad idea. But do you know what they will appreciate? Your proactivity, and the fact that you have an interest in improving the company. So there's no excuse here either.
This is one of the great evils in Hispanic countries. If we do not take direct advantage, we do nothing. And it is convenient to change the chip, because most of the acts that will generate profit, do not generate it directly..
If you can do work that improves the productivity of your company (for example, giving ideas to improve a production process, as I mentioned before), you may not receive anything directly, but the company will be more productive.
And, when a company improves its productivity, grows, can increase wages and hire more people. Therefore, this proactive attitude may not generate benefits for you in the moment, but it will do so in the long term..
So here there is no excuse either.
This excuse comes from a false idea of what a company is. Many workers conceive the company as a place where one is hired for a job and should not leave that job, because they do not pay for it.
It is an idea that the company is made to benefit the boss and not all of the workers who participate in it. And this idea is wrong.
What is a company is a group of people collaborating to carry out a business project. The boss and the worker are collaborating, and this must be understood in order for a company to function properly.
Therefore, your job is any job that can improve the company, because your job is to make the company prosper. You must act as if the company is yours.
In fact, Amancio Ortega, when he started his textile empire and only had a couple of stores, he already managed the company as the boss of everything. But if one day things didn't go at the right pace, he would go down to the workshop to fold shirts with the other workers..
If the richest man in the world left "his job" to do something that "was not his job," how can you not do it? There is no excuse here either.
As you can see, there are plenty of excuses for being unproductive or procrastinating, and what you have to do is fight them as hard as possible. There is no possible excuse. Going around the office is not an option.
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