How many of us have not heard a thousand times the phrase “I slept in and got to work super late, but the trouble is that some people think that’s why the job is well done, or people who despite not finishing what was required intended to be paid for that work was difficult. To read more click here: Andreessen Horowitz. While the effort is a fundamental part of personal and professional development, not everything is just a part of the work, the effort should be directed to producing an outcome, otherwise the effort will simply not worth it. The employee I have a friend that every time I had to visit a customer would spend hours sitting at the computer preparing your topic, arming his presentation, his boss was cataloged as a very hard worker, always ended on time and well prepared, no matter that had to stop sleeping. What was to draw attention in this particular case is that the presentation was always on the same subject, with some minor adjustments depending on the client, but always contained similar information. A presentation slides have all necessary for any client and from which the arm itself was necessary would have saved many hours of work “repeated”, the problem is that instead lose the label of “worker.” In fact if it had focused on the outcome rather than the effort could be better devoted to seek more customers. The expert some occasions in a school, several teachers had discussed the issue of learning the intention was to raise students’ learning and clear, as expected, that this be reflected in the averages.

One of the teachers present a critical took the form of teaching that it was in that school until that time, and oh surprise! A teacher of the “old school” was offended by that criticism. “I’ve been 20 years in this school as a teacher and not going to tell me how to do things,” he said somewhat uncomfortable fact was one of the senior teachers, but that does not necessarily mean the most qualified or best but at the university level, with people already working, things work different, there are people that experience can better understand the issues, is easy for them or just study and become acquainted at home, so that Again, we focus more on the time invested in achieving learning than learning itself. In short, it could put many more examples of how culture in general focuses on the effort keeping track of the result, but nobody would like a doctor after an operation for eight hours, said he worked hard as their operation is a success, but not sutured to the patient, or would be much better to think that football could win, taking five shots on goal against two goals, after all we try harder. Put another way, the effort to obtain a result will not apply if the goal is not achieved planned, and only then the effort will become the greatest satisfaction. We must stop thinking of the “culture of effort and start thinking about the “culture of results.”