Can you be lazy and still acheive results?

So can laziness be beneficial to your business? 
If you take the meaning as it is then no, nobody likes lazy workers but if you add the word constructive then yes.

Constructive laziness is simply making sure your staff utelise their time to greater effect.  Why do a job twice when you could of done it correctly once?

The great thing about installing the constructive laziness idea into your business is that it actually makes staff work harder and fit in more tasks into their day.

A very simple demonstration of this is in the summer when you have a beer garden.  The waitress takes a plate of food to a table in the garden, then asks if they need any sauces, then heads back to the kitchen for the sauces, back to the table and finally back to serve someone else.

What she also did was to come back empty handed.  Why? Because she hasn't been trained to consider why she should always come back with something from the garden.  It might only be a few glasses or a couple of plates but by doing this each time she would acheive more and her working time would be more beneficial to the customers and the company.

This is the point of Constructive Laziness.  Train your staff to consider adding a task to their original task so that they wont have to do it later.  They might think that this way of working means that they can relax later but what it actually means is that they are more effecient and so are giving your business more value for money.

Introduce it now and reap the rewards.
Philip