Malcolm Gladwell: Why you should slow down and do less

Just Pinned to Domestic and Global News: GLADWELL: Slow Down Do Less to Achieve Greatness... In some cases working more slowly producing less but higher quality work results in greater levels of success. For instance the publishing industry pressures writers to write quickly but Gladwell says quality work takes time. "As a writer my principal observation about why other writers fail is that they are in too much of a hurry" says Gladwell. "I don't think the problem with writing in America right now is a failure of output. I think it's a failure of quality." The New Yorker which Gladwell writes for is a good example. "The New Yorker is a hit-driven enterprise that probably eight articles a year account for 90 percent of people's interest in the product and so to the extent you could encourage people to write fewer hits you're better off." Generalizing that speed is correlated with competence is a good way to miss out on some very talented people according to Gladwell. He suggests using apprenticeships or trial periods when hiring which he says are a version of privileging power over speed. By giving potential hires a reasonable period of time to demonstrate their competence managers a
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