Stress-free productivity does exist

The traditional way of approaching new projects in companies has always been performing a comprehensive planning of all stages which will form the project. This is done in such way since many times you have to develop a budget that someone else has to define as acceptable; otherwise there’s no project. It’s also important to be clear about all the resources that are going to be needed in order to reach the goal.

Stephen Covey says in his famous book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that we accomplish all that we do through delegation. We delegate either to time or to others. In the first case we are talking about efficiency, in the second one we are talking about effectiveness.

In 2006, Joseph C. Nunes and Xavier Dréze published a study called The Endowed Progress Effect: How Artificial Advancement Increases Effort. They describe a very interesting phenomenon used in marketing, which you can also use to take on your projects with greater motivation.

Here are the changes done in recent weeks:

If we consider work as a succession of stages reflect-act, over here we have been in the “acting” mode for the last three months, immersed in the rebranding of FacileThings and all its effects. Only now, once we have finished the initial changes, we have had the opportunity to raise our heads and “reflect” about what we want to do during the next months.