Moving Beyond Personal Productivity
A bigg salute to Stowe Boyd for his recent post called Overload, Shoverload. He argues that personal productivity isn’t important anymore. It’s the productivity of your network that matters.
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That made us think of Stephen Covey. As he says in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, we have to move from independence to interdependence in order to achieve maximum effectiveness.
In the higher order of things, personal productivity is important, but interpersonal productivity is most important.
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Producing The Bigg Success Show takes a lot of work. We have five deadlines every week. We’ve divided up our duties pretty evenly. But sometimes I get done and George is still working. Sure I could move on to something else I need to do. But in some cases, it’s better if I help him catch up.
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We’re programmed to think that it’s our individual effort that matters. However, in the end it’s the team that wins or loses – helping your team, by helping your team mate, helps you. Mary-Lynn helps me when I need it, so I help her when she needs it.
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Interdependence leads us to a new business venture
It’s the network, stupid! That’s the paradigm for the 21st century – for us as individuals and for businesses and other organizations. It’s the end result that matters so we must focus on being effective, not just efficient. Our network can produce results that we couldn’t produce on our own.
Recently, we had an idea for a business. We talked a friend whose business is in the market we were targeting. After our conversation, we had a different idea so we started working on it!
Interdependence got us a better idea!
Now, we could do this whole thing ourselves. However, we have another friend who has a business that dovetails nicely with our expertise. We believe that we can grow the business much faster by working with him.
We’re a couple of months away from launching this national business. So far, it’s taken us two meetings and three series of e-mails.
Interdependence got us further faster!
Perhaps even more importantly, we think we’ll make more money by letting him do what he does best and sticking to what we do best.
Interdependence will make us more productive!
Developing a business at that speed couldn’t have happened if the relationship didn’t exist already. Trust has been built up over time and it’s taken a lot of trust to get to the point we are, especially at the speed we’ve been traveling!
If you’re willing to be truly interdependent, you can enjoy the power of interpersonal productivity. That’s what it takes today to be a bigg success!
Next time, we talk with two experts in leadership about engaging your employees. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!
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