What is True Effectiveness?
Considering balance in life using Stephen Covey’s P/PC balance theory.
Stephen Covey author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People refers to the story of the goose and the golden egg as follows:
“within this fable is a natural law, a principle — the basic definition of effectiveness. Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm.”
The more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.
But, true effectiveness is a function of two things:
1. What is produced (the golden eggs)
2. The producing asset or capacity to produce (the goose).
If you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglects the goose, you will soon be without the asset that produces golden eggs.
If you only take care of the goose with no aim toward the golden eggs, you soon won’t have the ability to feed yourself or the goose.
True effectiveness lies in the balance.
The balance between the production (the desired results or golden eggs) and the production capacity (the ability or asset that produces the golden eggs)
Let’s consider the theory of P/PC balance Covey gave us around balance in our lives.
Am I balanced in my life?
Am I balancing my production and my production capacity?
Do I need to reconsider my priorities?
Moral of the story is?
Don’t kill your goose.
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