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Eliminating 'Good' Work

I posted this to my blog recently, but I was wondering about what you all think about it.

I was on a GTD Connect teleseminar recently when the interviewee said that the key to doing "great" work was to reduce (through improving efficiency) the amount of time spent doing "good" work. ([url="http://www.episteme.ca/cblog/index.php?/archives/29-Compressing-Good-Work.html"]More detail here[/URL])

I've been pondering that one a lot lately, and I was wondering if anybody here has some stories about doing that effectively - is there a time when you can remember having a week or two of supreme effectiveness because you reduced the amount of "good" work that you were doing?

-Mike

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