Letter from Lhasa, number 379. The 5 Choices. The Path to Extraordinary Productivity

Letter from Lhasa, number 379. The 5 Choices. The Path to Extraordinary Productivity

by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Kogon, K., A. Merrill, and L. Rinne, The 5 Choices. The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, Simon & Schuster, 2015.

(Kogon 2015).

Kory Kogon,

Adam Merrill,

Leena Rinne

One needs acting on the important instead of reacting to the urgent.

Created four boxes (Q1.necessity, Q2.extraordinary productivity, Q3.distraction and Q4.waste), the author puts in Q2. Extraordinary Productivity: Proactive work, High-impact goals, Creative thinking, Planning, Prevention, Relationship building, and Learning and renewal.  

Quadrant 2 [Q2] is the place where to be for high productivity.

The returns of the other three quadrants are:

Q1 = breakeven,

Q3 = considerably less return than the energies invested in it,

Q4 = zero return.

The urgency addiction hampers from focalizing on high productivity tasks.

Facing whatever task, using a Pause-Clarify-Decide (PCD) frame, we have to constantly ask ourselves: Is it important? If you decide to waste time, be at least aware you are doing that.  

The culture of busyness, procrastination and the fear to say “no”, are all against high productivity. 

The essential skill for getting into Q2 is the Pause-Clarify-Decide frame. For creating a Q2 culture around you, you have to share the time matrix, use the language for identifying in which Qx there be, use the Pause-Clarify-Decide frame together with co-workers or employees. Craft a Q2 role statement for each role.

The thinking brain must overcome the reactive brain. Reactivity enslaves to events while one needs some insulation, for high productivity. Go for the extraordinary. Don’t settle for the ordinary. Schedule the big rocks. Don’t sort gravel! One needs to accomplish what is important, not only thinking about it.

“If there is no stillness, there is no silence. If there is no silence, there is no insight. If there is no insight, there is no clarity.”

Summarizing:

1. Act on the important. Don’t react to the urgent.

2. Go for the extraordinary. Don’t settle for the ordinary.

3. Schedule the big rocks. Don’t sort the gravel.

4. Rule your technology. Don’t let it rule you.

5. Fuel your fire. Don’t burn out.

Kogon, K., A. Merrill, and L. Rinne, The 5 Choices. The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, Simon & Schuster, 2015. 

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