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Balancing shallow and deep work
- What should be done when your team's "shallow work" is just as important as their "deep work"?
- How do you empower your team to find a balance between small improvements and general maintenance tasks on the one end, and building new and exciting developments on the other?
On a personal level, the answer is batching your shallow tasks together and blocking a time to do them all at once. On a team level, a balance can be maintained between long-term projects and short-term demands with two new complementary tools.
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The Hero Role
- Each month one person on each product team becomes the "Hero." Their primary responsibilities are to communicate with their support team and take care of smaller improvements.
- The Hero should be able to focus entirely on their support duties. They're not assigned to any other produ...
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Ensuring balance
Although the Hero role and Housekeeping days may seem insignificant, they make teamwork more effective and less stressful.
All team members can start each month, week, and day knowing what work they want to focus on and the freedom to focus on it with minimal interruptions.
By separ...
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Housekeeping Days
Each member of the team (except the Hero) spends one day per week on Housekeeping. It gives them time to focus on small but important tasks.
Housekeeping is a personal day. If the Hero hasn't explicitly asked for help on an issue, people can choose which tasks they want to work on. Sometim...
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Deep Work And Shallow Work
Our the ability to focus without distraction is becoming increasingly rare and valuable in our ever-connected world. Cal Newport calls this Deep Work and he contrasts it with shallow work:
- Deep work means those professional tasks that push your cogniti...
4. Do Deep Work / Avoid Half-Work or Shallow Work
Deep work is a term developed by Cal Newport, stating that all intellectual activities should be performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit.
On the other side deep work is “half-work” or “shallow work”. That...
Work Around Your Energy Levels
Productivity is directly related to your energy level.
Find your most productive hours — the time of your peak energy — and schedule Deep Work for those periods. Do low-value and low-energy tasks (also known as shallow work), such as responding to emails or unimportant meetings, in b...
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