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Fewer Resources and Two Worlds’ Effect on Work

Explore strategies to do more with less by fostering team efficiency and learning. Understand balancing the needs of your team and customers, and embrace personal growth by leaving your comfort zone to handle managerial challenges successfully.

Working with fewer resources

Having to make do with fewer resources than expected is one of the major hurdles a manager has to face. Tackling this hurdle is crucial because it is one of the best challenges to test a manager’s ability to be innovative and ingenious. Every manager will face situations in which they have fewer than optimum resources to work with, and, usually, the gut response of managers is to ask for more help or more resources. Sure, it would be nice to have more, but more doesn’t automatically translate to better outcomes.

When handling work problems, start by defining the problem and seeking immediate answers to it. A mantra you should ...