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"Work smarter, not harder ..."

Submitted by Khalid on Mon, 2010/03/08 - 10:56

"Work smarter, not harder" is something that sounds good, but in reality it is often a hollow sentence with no substance in it. In the corporate world, when a manager informs his team of staff cuts, while the workload is the same or more, "smarter" does not mean anything other than "do more with less". If this "working smarter" was tangible and doable, then why was it not employed before the staff cuts? Huh?

Here is a Dilbert comic lampooning this misused non-wisdom ...

Dilbert.com

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Really "Work Smarter, Not

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2010/07/08 - 17:19.

Really "Work Smarter, Not Harder" should be altered to "Work Productively". We might get somewhere before people get laid off, or burnt out, which is really just as bad.

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