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Are there any positive benefits of laziness and procrastination?

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Nasrullah Mohammed Portfolio Manager| Advanced Electronics Company Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Are there any positive benefits of laziness and procrastination?
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Nasrullah Mohammed Portfolio Manager| Advanced Electronics Company Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Apr 01, 2017 3:22 AM
Replying to Abhishek Pandey
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I strongly feel that there is no benefit of procrastination. If someone avoids to take decision on difficult situations, then after some time it becomes a habit. By chance, one can get benefited by procrastination, but same person will not have such fortune next time. Again the whole team gets affected by this bad habit.
If a decision is taken to delay an activity, then I fill it is not procrastination. But there is always a need to review such decisions in regular interval of time.
Some valuable feedback Abhishek. Sooner or later, this chronic procrastinating might begin to hamper job performance of the individual and the team.
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Nasrullah Mohammed Portfolio Manager| Advanced Electronics Company Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Apr 01, 2017 7:28 AM
Replying to Drew Craig
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Procrastination, laziness - carry a negative connotation. On the flip side, planning, thinking through, taking a pause - all seen as positive attributes.

There is no sense to hurry, and generally, there is no fire or emergency.

Perspective ....
Nice perception Andrew!

As Managers, we must not create a sense of urgency, but foster a sense of purpose.Trying to create a sense of urgency almost always backfires.

We need to retire the sense of urgency and instead look for sense of purpose. A team with a high sense of purpose can look a lot like a team with a high sense of urgency. Output would be high and people would be engaged.The critical distinction is that what you do as a leader has very little overlap.
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