Work smart

Now people consider “work smart” is better than “work hard”. But before receiving this idea, we should first know the meaning of “work smart”. This term signifies that people no longer just “work hard” to get every thing done but also work with efficiency, with “smart” skills and “smart” approaches to finish the work better.

But there is a developing that twists the original good meaning. Some bosses and employees change the meaning of “work smart”. Those employees would give their works to those who are new in the company. And they turn this “skill” into “work smart”. As a result, “work smart” turns out to be no responsibilities.

After so many lessons employees have learned from the bussiness environment, they start to understand the undefined “rule”. Everybody tries to “work smart”, the surviving principle is to work as less as you can. And gradually the whole system lost its positive, active energy, and the fair value is twisted.

Following the idea of “work hard” is a wrong thing, many new, fresh college students take over the responsibolities of working hard. But there is always someone that standing out from his group. We observe those who become successful and realize they’re “work smart” people.

For example, when being asked to investigate the market price of watermelons, they not only asked one store how much was it, but also investigate others and wrote down the weight of watermelons and prices from each store, plus some analysis and recommandetions to give some valuable suggestions.

From this example, we can see they don’t just do what the boss told them to do, but they understand the need of the question, and hold this important information to search deeper and more accurate. They aren’t just blindly searching for information, but search for what they need to make the searching range smaller and make the searching process faster.

Actually back to the original purpose, we should encourage everybody to work things right and do their best. “Work hard” is good, but work in a more effiecient way to finish the work is better. And the idealst situation is to work with hard-working spirit and use the smart approach, it is to “work hard” and also “work smart”.