Do you ever get to Friday and ask yourself, “Why does it feel like I didn’t get anything done this week?” The reality is that you probably didn’t get as much done as you could have. Which, is ok…as long as you’re committed to improving your productivity. (Hint…if you’re not in the mindset to regularly assess your work productivity, you need to start.)

This article from CamMi Pham Medium.com, 7 Things You Need to Stop Doing to be More Productive, Backed by Science, touches several topics that are routine challenges for military leaders:

• Military leaders typically work long hours. Are we overtasked or just inefficient?
• We say YES to ideas that help Soldiers, even if they’re not the unit’s priority.
• The military is full of perfectionists who spend too much time refining products.
• Money and bureaucracy prevent the military from automating many of the procedures that make it inefficient.

Here are the bullets from the article:

1. Stop working overtime and increase your productivity
2. Don’t say ‘yes’ too often
3. Stop doing everything yourself and start letting people help you
4. Stop being a perfectionist
5. Stop doing repetitive tasks and start automating
6. Stop guessing and start backing up your decisions with data
7. Stop working, and have do-nothing time

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