{"id":501,"date":"2008-11-07T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/diminishing-return\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T10:28:08","slug":"diminishing-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/diminishing-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Diminishing Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#39;re like me, a type A, then the idea of one more call or sentence is a lure.&#0160; But the reality is we reach diminishing return well before we think.&#0160; This is not only an issue for type A people.&#0160; It really flows through our culture (in America at least) the idea of time versus results.<\/p>\n<p>I know a COO of a new non-profit start up that is instituting a 35 hour work week-mandatory.&#0160; He believes efficiency fades after 35 hours.&#0160; How innovative!&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many of our working hours are made up diminishing returns?&#0160; I would say a minimum of 20%, and I think I&#39;m being conservative.&#0160; Especially when you line up work hours with the <strong>stated mission<\/strong> of many organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the most important thing is to know the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What&#39;s the most important thing to be accomplished.<\/li>\n<li>Figure out how to get the most important things done.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you have the resources needed to get those things done.<\/li>\n<li>Measure success.<\/li>\n<li>Stop when <strong>you know<\/strong> diminishing return has set in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#39;re like me, a type A, then the idea of one more call or sentence is a lure.&#0160; But the reality is we reach diminishing return well before we think.&#0160; This is not only an issue for type A people.&#0160; It really flows through our culture (in America at least) the idea of time&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,123,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-leadership-development","category-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}