So there I was rocking back in my chair (as you do) contemplating possible solutions over a problem when my boss wanders over and says “that’s hardly productive is it?”
I replied, “I’m thinking…”
He said (and I couldn’t make this up), “we don’t have time for that, get back to work!”
Now, being in a consulting environment one would guess that thinking about problems, current solutions and the marriage of the two are pretty important, but it would seem to my narrow-minded manager that unless I am on the phone, at a client’s office, in a meeting (and don’t get me started on productivity issues there) or typing furiously at my computer I’m not being productive.
Surely more time should be spent contemplating the correct course of action rather than running in, guns blazing, and then being forced to retreat because we hadn’t thought it through.
Sometimes I think we all need to just slow down and think about things. Or maybe its just me…
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