Do more with “the same”

To emphasis the effectiveness of a new tool, we always hear some people say it would make you “do more with less”. This is so attractive to Chief Officers. How would the other staffs think about this?

Dongshan River Water Park (冬山河親水公園).
The venue of  Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival (YICFFF, 宜蘭國際童玩藝術節). Yilan County, Taiwan. 

The problem of “do more with less”

With the word “less”, what does that mean? Does that imply we don’t need that much budgets anymore? Does that imply we don’t need more hardware? Does that imply the workforce would be cut down?



Under a not-so-good economic situation, cutting workforce means people would lose their jobs. In the end, I might not welcome and I might defend myself from such new good tools.

It is really a sad story for an effective new tool X becomes an enemy to the people it is going to help.

How about, with the same, we can do more

My suggestion is we change the phrase a little bit, maybe it might not be so offensive to working staffs this way.

Do more, with the same.

That means, we don’t have to reduce budgets. We still need to buy new things. And the most important of all, we would not lose our jobs even if we embrace the new tool.

We all still understand this new tool is so effective, because we can still “do more”.

Embrace new tools, enable business growth

For example, assume we need 100 staffs to take good care of 10 large data centers before. After we add new tool X, we can now take good care of 1,000 large data centers with exactly the same 100 staffs.

With this changed mindset, we don’t need to avoid new automation tools any more. We can now live happily together with the new tools.

The Chief Officers still achieve their business growth. This is a win-win situation.



One more thing...

New tools would save us a lot of time. What can we do then with those extra time?

Of course, you could spend more time browsing my website. Or, you now have enough time to watch all the videos on Cisco Live website.

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