Comment by _yosefk
10 years ago
One good takeaway: be slow at things you don't want to do a lot. Be slow in answering the kind of email you don't want to receive again, etc.
10 years ago
One good takeaway: be slow at things you don't want to do a lot. Be slow in answering the kind of email you don't want to receive again, etc.
I like to call this "intentional incompetence" :)
I don't think that is accurate without an additional assumption about the reason you don't want to do something.
If I prioritize quick responses and turn arounds to requests that are important, provide value, and allow me to improve important skills, that is not incompetence.
If you de-prioritize items, regardless of their importance and value but simply because you don't want to do, that could quite conceivably be called incompetence. However that rests on the assumption that you don't want to be competent.
I generally want to be competent. When there are things I don't want to do, it is usually because they are part of a bad, inefficient process that I haven't managed to change yet.
... and if you consider that bad, inefficient process beyond your influence in the foreseeable future, then intentional incompetence is the good strategy to avoid doing it. Such situations easily arise once you work within larger organisations.