Do you work in the evenings? And at lunch? On the weekend? Sometimes? How much is “sometimes”? And I'm working.
There are all sorts of beautiful sayings about extracurricular work, for example - I work to live, and I don’t live to work. I propose to do without them, and to comprehend the concept of efficiency.
Efficiency is the cost of producing a result, or, more simply, the cost of the result.
Further – it’s easier. I take my monthly salary. Let's say it's 50 thousand rubles. This is the result of my work, for which I came here. What is my cost to produce this output?
My main cost item is the time devoted to work. For example, I am a completely adequate person, and I don’t want to spend more than 8 hours a day on work. This means my costs are equal, plus/minus, 168 hours per month.
Well, it’s easy to calculate the efficiency: 50 thousand rubles. divided by 168 hours, you get approximately 300 rubles per hour. I, like a machine, generate 300 rubles per hour.
Now let's imagine that I am a bad programmer. To earn a salary of 50 rubles, I need to complete 100 hours. And since I’m bad, then in 168 hours I don’t have time to do a damn thing for these damn 100 hours of production.
What to do? Well, you guessed it. Work in the evenings, on weekends, come early, don’t have lunch, etc. All together this is called scaling.
Scaling is a normal process for business. For example, an entrepreneur built a shop that brings him 300 rubles. profits monthly. Having saved up money, he scales his business - he opens a second store in another area of the city. And so on ad infinitum, like Pyaterochka or KB. The mathematics is very simple - each store operates with approximately the same efficiency (300 thousand rubles in profit per month), but due to scaling, the total profit of the network grows.
Now imagine that the businessman is as bad as me. Let's say his first store was operating at a loss. Common sense dictates: dude, you're doing something wrong. And he takes it and opens a second store, with exactly the same processes, pricing policy and marketing. And he gets two stores operating at a loss. And so on until it goes bankrupt.
In both cases, the same process occurs - scaling. Only in the first case is the scaling of profits, and in the second - the scaling of losses. Efficiency, whatever it may be, scales.
Let's get back to me. While my efficiency was 300 rubles per hour, I worked 8 hours a day and received my 50 rubles. When my efficiency dropped, I began to produce, say, 200 rubles per hour. This means that in order to get my 50 thousand rubles, I already need to spend 250 hours. Simple and clear.
This increase of 82 hours is my scaling. To earn more money, i.e. getting more results, I increase costs by spending more time. But I don’t do anything with the “engine” - efficiency.
Self-efficacy is a black box for me. That is, it’s easier for me to think this way. It is much easier to work in the evening than to increase efficiency during the day.
The problem is that there are 24 hours in a day. I cannot spend more than I have. They don't give out loans yet, do they? This means that, working with an efficiency of 200 rubles per hour, without weekends and holidays, resting only 4 hours a day, I will earn a maximum of 120 rubles. per month. The number is not bad, but I will die.
This is my physical limit without increasing efficiency. A businessman, even with low efficiency but positive profits, has no limits. Well, that is. almost none - only limited by market volume.
There is a limit to my spending. But efficiency doesn’t, that’s the thing.
There are people nearby who make 400, and 500, and 1000, and 5000 rubles per hour. This is the efficiency of their engine, which can be the same for me. Then I simply multiply by the hours of work, and get the possible income for the month.
So, since I constantly work outside of school hours, I am just scaling up my own inefficiency. And no one but me is to blame for this. I don't work well during the day, and I don't work well in the evening. And nothing will ever change.
Roughly speaking, I do cargo transportation on a moped. No matter how hard you try, no matter how much you ride your two-wheeled friend, you won’t earn much money. You drive slowly, you carry no more than 10 kg of cargo, the gas consumption is high, the efficiency is terrible.
But I still go. Right now, right now, right now, I’m just getting up to speed, THEN, when I GET BIG, after this damn task, or when this project is over, then I’ll switch to at least the old four, like fruit sellers.
I could read Goldratt's book "The Purpose" for more on this topic, but I won't. I have no time, the moped farts merrily and calls me to new heights.
Source: habr.com