Fire Fighter vs Fire Marshal

Jasonming
1 min readSep 6, 2022

“The problem isn’t that you’re too busy. You are too busy, but that’s not the problem. If you view being busy as the problem, there is no solution. You will always be too busy, and that will never change. As Andy Grove once noted: “A manager’s work is never done. There is always more to be done, more that should be done, always more than can be done.” The problem is that you’re acting like a firefighter instead of a fire marshal.”

In Chinese metaphysics, we have water and fire element. A fire element person is like a firefighter, super motivated and reacting fast but not lasting…

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