Cal professor, Great at Work author, says do less to achieve more

Cal professor, Great at Work author, says do less to achieve moreCal professor, Great at Work author, says do less to achieve moreWhen he first abfluged his career, Morten Hansen welches a consultant who thought working up to ninety hours a week was the secret to success. But as the management professor at University of California, Berkeley, details in his new book Great at Work How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, And Achieve More, overworking himself was not working.Instead, Hansen noticed that his consultant coworker Natalie was outperforming him even though she never worked late and had a normal work-life balance. The secret to Natalies success was part of the genesis for Hansens five-year survey study on 5,000 employees and managers. As part of the study, Hansen recruited people across diverse careers, including store managers, plant foremen, brokers, lawyers, and engineers, to complete work habits surveys on themselves, their bosses, and their subordinates. Here are the res earch-backed tips he shared with Ladders on how the top performers in these fields are able to get more out of doing less, so that we can do the saatkornSurvey The hardest hustlers arent necessarily the best workersHansens quantitative results found that if you work more than 50 hours, your job performance plateaus. In fact, if you work more than 65 hours a week, your performance and productivity sharply declines.What he discovered debunks the belief that working long, crazy hours leads to better work. If you want to be really great at your career, do not fall into the trap of thinking that being busy - volumes of activity - is the same as accomplishment, Hansen told Ladders. The number of meetings you go to, the number of frequent flier miles you rack up flying on your job, the number of business trips you take, the number of phone calls you make, the number of customer visits you make, the number of emails you send - these are not accomplishments, they are just activities. The question is what are the results of those activities? Thats where we need to have a mental shift.On how we need to be selectively obsessiveInstead of boxing ourselves into the do more, then stress group of workers, Hansen wants us to become do less, then obsess kind of workers. Backed by qualitative and quantitative data from his 96-item survey, Hansens recommendations go beyond the usual work smarter advice of starting a calendar and being better at delegating and prioritizing. Hansen found that the top performers were not just working less, but they were obsessively focused on the value they created with the hours they worked.If I focus on the work that creates the most value to my organization, and I do these exceptionally well, thats going to get noted. That is going to stand out as exceptional work. That is what the data says, and I see it time and again, Hansen said.Hansens book shares the cautionary tale of a Hewlett-Packard engineer who wasted hours of his day writing a quar terly project status report that was read by no one in the research department. He had honigwein his goal according to his job description, but he had contributed zero value, Hansen said. But if you want to climb the ladders of a career, you need to do more that just accomplish goals- you need to find and meet goals that matter to your organizations success.On why follow your passion is not enoughIn Hansens study, employees who were able to match passion with purpose scored 18 points higher in their performance than passionless and purposeless employees. But if you feel like youre in a dead-end job with no passion, quitting is not the only answer to finding meaning in your work.Hansen said that we should expand our definition of what passion is beyond enjoying everything about our job. Maybe, you relish the sense of competition, or you enjoy collaborating with your teammates, or maybe you love creative problem solving. Take those different passions and see if you can find areas at w ork where you can do that little by little, Hansen recommends. If you like learning and development, try to get into some training seminarsIn other words, you start maneuvering yourself. In most jobs, there is some room for maneuveringWe found people who could do this.On how to stop a boss who is overworking youWe may want to individually apply Hansens lessons, but may also feel constrained by managers who demand more and more of our time. But taking every opportunity that you are assigned will not serve you well, Hansen found. Being a yes-person is a great way to underperform, Hansen said. When your boss piles on stuff on you, and you say yes you start producing substandard work.To stop your work from suffering, Hansen said that you need to be assertive and set boundaries with your boss.You dont say no I dont want to take on this assignment, Hansen said about how you broach the conversation. Instead, he suggests telling them Youre giving me a new task to do and I just want to sit d own with you to go through the priority list. Of these priorities, which one do you want me to do first and concentrate on? Now, we have a dialogue. Youre putting it back on the boss.In his book, Hansen details the story of James, a junior management consultant, who was able to successfully get his work partner to back off from piling on more work when he told him frankly that,The merger project requires all my attention for the next three weeks, and there is no slack in the schedule. The key is to deliver the best quality, so we will need some more people on the merger project if you want me to help with the sales bid. The honest conversation required James to be assertive about his needs and attentive to the value he created for his gamble to work.The bottom lineThese lessons on focus, and matching passion with purpose, and tactfully saying no show us that being great at work does not depend on bosses and coworkers. It starts with us realizing that we have agency and power over ou r careers to make each workday matter.

Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle Frank Whittle Frank WhittleI want a thousand Whittles Those were the orders of one Winston Churchill after first seeing a jet-powered airplane in action. It tore over his head at 400 mph, a good 50 mph more than the fastest fighter planes in the the Royal Air Force (RAF).Its too bad the prime minister hadnt made the order a good 10 years or so earlier. The man whoconceived and brought the jet engine to fruition, Frank Whittle (1907 1996), had been at work on the invention since 1928. If certain officers of the RAF had shared Whittles vision, rather than handicapping him every step of the way, Britain could have had jet fighters at the start of the war, and there may very well have been no second World War at all.Regardless of the outcome of alternative histories, we still owe our cheap, speedy, and plentiful globetrotting to Whittles jet. Journeys that now take hours once took days and its the jet engine alone thats responsible for the difference.The institutional resi stance to Whittles ideas and research may have something to do with that old English battleground, class. Whittles were of the working sort. His father welches a mechanic and inventor, and not above using his razor strop to disciple young Frank. Father Whittle did manage to scrape together the funds to buy the Leamington Valve and Piston Ring Companybut it welches just a shop with a few tools and a lathe. The family would sleep there when they became briefly homeless.Whenthe First World War broke out, Frank Whittles imagination welches captivated by the airplanes. As soon as he welches able, he attempted to enlist in the RAF, but, slight and five tall, he was deemed too small. So he entered a program of exercise and nutrition (which included drinking copious amounts of liver oil) to increase his size. Six months later he was three inches taller and had increased his chest size by three inches as well. Rejected again, he repeated the whole process at a different office and was finall y admitted to RAF Cranwell.Frank Whittle with a model of his engine.As a pilot he was one of the wildest, buzzing fences, flying low over the Thames and performing aerobatics. He developed a flick roll, for instance, where he would roll so close to the ground that his wheels would make contact and spin. He crashed several planes in the process.It was natural, perhaps, that such a stuntman would turn his mind to increasing the speed of an airplane. It was as a cadet that Whittle wrote his paper Future Developments in Airplane Design. In it he outlined the idea of igniting compressed, fuel-injected air and using the exhaust as propulsion. In his first conception, it was a piston that drove the compression. But he soon realized that the weight of the piston negated the benefits. A year after completing his thesis, he had developed the idea of a gas turbine with a propelling jet.When his idea was shown to officer A. A. Griffith, who was investigating the use of gas turbines to power pro pellers, it was shot down. A letter from the Air Ministry even explained that there were no materials that could withstand the stresses of such a turbine. A more supportive officer at Cranwell convinced Whittle to take out his own patent, and he did so in January of 1930. Thanks to official disinterest, the patent was no secret and was published for the public at large in 1932.In the years that followed, Whittle became a flight instructor and a pilot with the Red Arrows, the RAFs team of stunt flyers. He was put to work testing seaplaneshe was literally catapulted over the North Seaand took an officers engineering course, all the while working on improving his plans for a jet engine. He had little hope of seeing it become reality, and so, in 1935, he let his patent lapse rather than pay the five-pound renewal fee.A year later, two ex-RAF pilots put the funds together to help Whittle turn his plans into reality. They founded Power Jets and, with war on the horizon, the new company co nvinced the Air Ministry to finally throw a few coins into the development of the engine. This was a mixed blessing The governments investment was not huge and it required that further developments must be done secretly, which made it tough to find additional backing.Whittles small group of researchers set up shop in an abandoned foundry and in 1937 were ready for the first test run. Whittle turned on the starter motor and when it hit 1,000 rpm, he allowed fuel into the combustion chamber. Soon the rpms were at 2,000, and a deafening siren whine filled the foundry. When Whittle tried to shut the engine down, the rpms just continued to climbto 8,000. Everyone involved fled, but Whittle was frozen to the spot. I have rarely been so frightened, Whittle once wrote. It turned out that extra fuel had been gathering at the bottom of the engine, causing it to continue to run after it had seemingly been turned off.The relative success of these first trials, combined with the growing Nazi men ace across the water, meant put Whittle and his research on the fast track. That caused Whittle to start taking Benzedrine to keep working 16 hours a day.On May 15, 1941, Whittles first jet-powered plane took off and stayed aloft for 43 minutes. Frank, it flies, said one of his colleagues. Whittle responded, That was bloody well what it was designed to do, isnt it?Thanks, in part, to Whittles widely disseminated patent, his jet plane was not the first in the air. A Nazi researcher, Hans von Ohain, had managed to get a jet craft flying in August of 1939. With hindsight it appears Ohain developed his jet independently, and Whittles patents merely helped him along once they were available. But Ohains engines would wear out quickly and it was Whittles that evolved into the jets we know today.Whittle was knighted, but, despite the honor, eventually emigrated to the U.S.making his way on a jet, of course. He continued to work in the field, and also developed a self-powered oil drill. Afte r his death in 1996, his ashes took one last jet ride, back to Cranwell.Michael Abrams is an independent writer.When Whittle tried to shut the engine down, the rpms just continued to climb- to 8,000. Everyone involved fled, but Whittle was frozen to the spot.

The Tone It Up cofounders on why collaboration is key in community building

The Tone It Up cofounders on why collaboration is key in community buildingThe Tone It Up cofounders on why collaboration is key in community buildingKarena Dawn and Katrina Scott built a female fitness empire from that has also turned into a flourishing community of health-focused women. The Tone It Up community started very similarly to the way that the Karena and Katrina duo was born through shared aspirations to stay (or get) fit and the desire to have a partner in that journey. The futurecofounders and CEOs met in the gym, of course, when they were both working out on a Friday night. While their own collaboration led to a blossoming community, they quickly realized that they needed to be in prise with that community in order to keep the brand growing.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreTone It Up on collaboration in the officeThe co-founders started the company as a two-women t eam and remain that way in their brand.Our work is very collaborative, Dawn wrote to Ladders. Katrina and I are in constant communication to dream up whats next for our community.To this day, they both act as CEOs of the company, although theyve added a few members since 2009.We have an incredible team at our HQ that helps bring these visions to life, and we work closely with everyone on our team, Dawn wrote.Tone It Up on collaboration with the communityWhile the cofounders rely heavily on each other and their employees, the largest source of inspiration actually comes from outside the office.We also look to the Tone It Up community for inspiration, so we ask them what they want and need to succeed and then we deliver it, Dawn wrote.We survey to see what theyre looking for, their favorite flavors, and what types of workouts work for them, and were always listening to their feedback, the co-founders wrote. Were also constantly learning, researching the latest science and trends, and innovating, so we can provide women with all the insight and tools they need to succeed. Every decision comes down to this will it help women live their healthiest, happiest, and most confident lives?Tone It Ups goal is to provide everything that a woman needs to live a healthy lifestyle from workout videos to nutrition plans to exercise equipment. Tone It Up even makes updates and adjustments on their apps based on community suggestions.Dawn and Scotts partnership began as a friendship between people with similar interests, interacting with the community allows them to meet even more women with passions for fitness and health. Tone It Up participates in events like POPSUGAR Play/Ground on June 22 and 23 as a way to meet more members of their community.The women of the TIU community lift each other up and cheer each other on, Dawn said. They are brilliant, beautiful, strong, and inspiring We are so excited to bring our community to POPSUGAR Play/Ground so we can all connect with eve n more like-minded women.

Here are two trends plaguing older workers

Here are two trends plaguing older workersHere are two trends plaguing older workersGiven that research has found that tech workers worry about age discrimination at age 40- and that after age 48 passes you by, your chances of getting a job in Silicon Valley tank- its clear that age plays a huge role in peoples concerns about work as the years tick forward.Here are just a couple of things more recent research has found about the nature of work as you get older.Job-security concerns increase with ageWITI (Women in Technology International) andIT research and advisory company451 Research released a surveyrecently, in which they polled 1,901 employees in STEM-related industries.Among the many results was how safe people think their jobs are.The survey resultsshow that as workers age, they generally tend to doubt how secure their positions are.For women, confidence consistently drops from ages 20-60+.For men, this largely holds true - with one exception.Men with significant confidence have the fruchtwein of it at ages 20-29, but it continues to drop until their confidence hits its lowest point at ages 50-59. Notably, their confidence goes back up at age 60+.Older workers could stay in the workforce longer with more flexible hoursA working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that, at the time the survey was conducted, if nothing from their final position had changed - including the kind of job, how much they make per hour, and the number of hours - around 40% of retired Americans said that they would want to work again.One of the main takeaways of the NBER working paper was that for many older Americans, labor force participation near or after normal retirement age is restricted by an absence of acceptable employment prospects - plus the idea that older workers wont be able to find employment at advanced ages.Willingness to work becomes much stronger if they can choose hours flexibly instead of having to work the same number of hou rs as in their last job on a fixed schedule, the report said. About 60 percent of retirees would be willing to return to work with a flexible schedule. Furthermore, 20 percent of retirees would be willing to take more than a 20 percent hourly wage reduction to do so.

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