Avoiding lies & conflicts reduces productivity: cheating kills efficiency

Honesty probably not only lasts the longest, it also makes you productive. Effective collaboration benefits from directness and openness.

Relentlessly honest or rather a compliment

This is not supposed to be morally acidic Article are about ethical responsibility and the mandatory, to tell the truth. In fact, for all my love of truth, I am now convinced that ours Society would probably not work without the little white lies that make our interpersonal interactions more pleasant.

Just imagine your day getting rough Honestly start, for example with a morning: "Man, you look out of place again today, probably drunk all night." instead of just saying "That dress looks good on you". What do you think would happen? N / A? Even!

Dizziness kills efficiency

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In fact, I want to focus on a completely different aspect I aufmerksam Do: On how productivity suffers from the big and small interpersonal fibs – and how the productivity swindle becomes a big one too Problem can be. I recently experienced this first-hand.

In one case I got a matter on the desk where clear it could be seen that the sender himself before the final decision wanted to press. In fact, I had the same now on the neck, but then no Lust. So I just passed the matter on like this, motto: "You deal with it". That was fatal, because the decision came back like a boomerang and resulted in a terribly long tail of discussions, in which I had to constantly mediate between two sides. That cost time and unnecessary nerves!

It is always more effective to address things immediately!

It would have been better, and above all more effective, if I had taken care of the matter straight away: addressed the person directly, asked for a clear statement, followed up, set a deadline - all the things that you don't like to do because you're not unfriendly or want to be "the ass" - or because you don't have one Stress want to do.

I'm speaking from mine here Perspektive as a Ms.who are usually socialized in such a way that they don't want to mess around. Men, it is said, are different and approach conflicts head-on. In fact, I experience this Behavior also common in men – for example in exactly this case. Conversely, it is my impression that this is often more accepted by men than by women, who are often expected to behave in a friendly manner.

Is that somehow? Rather not!

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But not saying what you want right away, even though you have already made the decision for yourself, not only leads to unnecessary discussions. It also causes unnecessary extra work that could simply have been saved. For example because you try to give the other his ideas somehow to be foisted according to the motto "It will work out somehow" - often it just doesn't work.

I also had an example of this last week: An author had offered me an article for Best of HR - Berufebilder.de® to write. Since the offer didn't sound bad, I accepted. When I got the article, I suddenly realized what was behind it:

Unclear statements mean unnecessary extra work

In the text, there were clearly links in several places that were intended to optimize the sender's search engine - peppered with a lot of keywords and in a way that you wouldn't normally link to. Seeding is the technical term for this procedure. I rejected the article. If the author had said straight away what she was doing, she could have saved herself the trouble.

My conclusion from these two experiences: Small white lies may be morally justifiable - they are more of a poison for productivity and effective collaboration. What experiences have you had in this regard?

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