{"id":316,"date":"2008-12-19T17:32:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-12-19T17:32:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T17:32:38","slug":"be-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Be Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a classic <a title=\"Wikipedia INTJ\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/INTJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INTJ<\/a> through and through I hate ineffeciency, it&#8217;s a pet hate and I strive to remove it from many aspects of my business, but I&#8217;ve just spent a couple of very informative days brain storming &amp; discussing future strategies for the <a title=\"Cordovan Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cordovangroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cordovan Group<\/a> with the board members along with <a title=\"Professor David Drennan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.job-race.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof David Drennan<\/a>. David said something that really made me stop and think about a few things (To be fair, David said plenty of insightful stuff, but I&#8217;m only going to highlight one of them).<\/p>\n<p>To be efficient is &#8220;to do things right&#8221;<br \/>\nTo be effective is &#8220;to do the right things&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So while being efficient is all very well, being effective is far more important!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a classic INTJ through and through I hate ineffeciency, it&#8217;s a pet hate and I strive to remove it from many aspects of my business, but I&#8217;ve just spent a couple of very informative days brain storming &amp; discussing future strategies for the Cordovan Group with the board members along with Prof David Drennan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22,7],"tags":[5,81],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","category-not-what-you-think","category-wize-wordz","tag-leading","tag-prof-david-drennan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}