如何通过使用Andy Grove的High Leverage Activities加快发展？ (How to speed up your development by using Andy Grove’s High Leverage Activities ?)

You're constantly building on new features, fixing new bugs, and improving existing code. Along the way, your to-do list can become so hopelessly long that you have no clue what to work on next.

您将不断开发新功能，修复新错误并改进现有代码。一路上，您的待办事项清单可能变得如此无望，以至于您不知道下一步该做什么。

“There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.”

“有这么多人努力工作，却成就不大。”

— Andy Grove, former Intel CEO

—前英特尔首席执行官安迪·格罗夫(Andy Grove)

In this post, I’ll show you the power of leverage, and how to use it to improve your decision-making process. I’ll use some examples from the book High Output Management which was written by the late engineering legend Andy Grove himself.

在这篇文章中，我将向您展示杠杆的力量，以及如何利用它来改善您的决策过程。我将使用已故的工程传奇人物安迪·格罗夫(Andy Grove)自己写的《高输出管理》一书中的一些示例。

This will help you boost your productivity by getting rid of repetitive work, and investing time your time in tasks that will yield a bigger impact.

这将避免重复工作，并把时间花在可以产生更大影响的任务上，从而帮助您提高生产率。

安迪·格鲁夫(Andy Grove)所说的“杠杆”是什么意思？ (What does Andy Grove mean by “leverage”?)

You can define leverage by asking a simple question. Is the value or impact that a task will produce per time invested currently worth the time? It’s like the return on investment for the effort that’s put in.

您可以通过问一个简单的问题来定义杠杆。目前，一项任务所投入的时间所产生的价值或影响是否值得？这就像付出的努力带来的投资回报。

Time is your most limited resource, so make sure you’re spending your time on the right activity.
时间是您最有限的资源，因此请确保您将时间花在正确的活动上。

No matter who you are, at some point in your career, there’s more work to be done than time available. This means you’ll need to start prioritizing your work.

无论您是谁，在职业生涯的某个时刻，要做的工作都比空余的时间多。这意味着您需要开始确定工作的优先级。

At the end of each day, you should take time to reflect, and look for things that you can do better the next day. Without reflection, you may end up spending way to much time on doing things that don’t matter right now.

在每天结束时，您应该花点时间思考，并寻找第二天可以做得更好的事情。如果没有反思，您可能最终会花很多时间在做不重要的事情上。

如何增加杠杆 (How to increasing your leverage)

Let’s say you’re spending 20 minutes every morning going through your mailbox, only to delete most of the spam emails. This is a repetitive and time-consuming task. You can increase your leverage here by investing some time in configuring smart inboxes that will filter all the spam out of your email. This can reduce your time spent reading through your mailbox by 50%.

假设您每天早上花20分钟浏览邮箱，只是删除大多数垃圾邮件。这是一项重复且耗时的任务。您可以在此处花费一些时间来配置智能收件箱，以将所有垃圾邮件从您的电子邮件中过滤掉，从而增加杠杆作用。这样可以将花费在阅读邮箱中的时间减少50％。

Configuring those smart inboxes may take you one hour at most. Good investment, right? You just saved 50 minutes every week that you can spend on something that is actually worth your time. This is around 2,600 minutes each year — equal to a full work week.

配置这些智能收件箱最多可能需要一个小时。好投资吧？您每周仅节省了50分钟的时间，您就可以花在实际上值得您花时间的事情上。每年大约需要2600分钟，相当于一周的工作时间。

Your leverage can only be increased in three ways:

您的杠杆作用只能通过三种方式增加：

Reducing the time it takes to complete a certain activity
减少完成某项活动所需的时间
Increasing the output of a particular activity
增加特定活动的输出
Changing your focus to higher-leverage activities
将重点转移到高杠杆活动

These three ways naturally translate into three questions you can ask yourself about any activity you’re working on:

这三种方式自然会转化为三个问题，您可以问自己有关正在进行的任何活动：

How can I complete this activity in a shorter amount of time?
如何在较短的时间内完成此活动？
How can I increase the value produced by this activity?
如何增加这项活动产生的价值？
Is there something else that I could spend my time on that would produce more value?
还有什么我可以花时间在上面的东西可以产生更多的价值吗？

Let’s say you’ve scheduled a one-hour meeting. How can you increase that meeting’s leverage?

假设您安排了一个小时的会议。您如何提高会议的影响力？

Start by asking yourself whether the meeting is actually necessary. Can it be replaced by a simple Slack discussion so you can work on the next big product feature?
首先，问自己是否真的有必要开会。可以用一个简单的Slack讨论代替它，以便您可以使用下一个重要的产品功能吗？
Shorten the meeting to half an hour so you’re forced to focus more on the subject, thereby eliminating the temptation to fill the full allotted time. Believe me, this sounds scary, but it actually works. The focus of the meeting will increase because of the extra pressure that time will put on you.
将会议缩短为半小时，这样您就不得不将精力更多地集中在主题上，从而消除了在整个分配时间上都充满诱惑的情况。相信我，这听起来很吓人，但实际上有效。由于时间的压力会增加会议的重点。
Prepare an agenda of the key subjects you’d like to discuss. This will also increase your productivity, and make sure you focus on the right things.
准备您要讨论的关键主题的议程。这也将提高您的生产率，并确保您专注于正确的事情。

What about development tasks?

那么开发任务呢？

Let’s say you’re spending way to much time by solving bugs that came from your production environment. Instead of just solving those bugs, try to think about how you can shorten the amount of time you’re busy solving them. For example, this can be fixed by shifting to a higher-leverage activity like increasing your test coverage percentage, or investing time in improving your deployment workflow. This is crucial when you’re developing a product at a high speed.

假设您通过解决生产环境中的错误而花费大量时间。不仅要解决这些错误，还应考虑如何减少正在忙于解决它们的时间。例如，可以通过转移到更高杠杆率的活动(例如增加测试覆盖率或花费时间来改善部署工作流程)来解决此问题。当您高速开发产品时，这至关重要。

When you successfully shorten the time required for an activity, you will spend that time more effectively.

成功缩短某项活动所需的时间后，您将可以更有效地利用该时间。

So the next time you sit down to handle a routine task, ask yourself how you might get more leverage in doing that each task time.

因此，下次您坐下来执行例行任务时，请问自己在每次任务时如何获得更大的杠杆作用。

What is your secret for increasing your productivity? Let me know in the comments. Oh and every Friday I send out four high quality articles that are related to engineering and product development via my newsletter.

您提高生产率的秘诀是什么？在评论中让我知道。哦，每个星期五，我都会通过通讯发布四篇与工程和产品开发相关的高质量文章。

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