Henry Ford understood the power of pause more than 100 years ago.
By introducing the assembly line, the build time for a Model T went from 12 hours to around 90 minutes.
How? By specialisation and batching. Instead of one team building a car from scratch, he divided the labour into specialised parts, and batched them. Panels, transmission, engine, wheels, etc. Each of them was a separate piece of work with a different set of skills.
More importantly, the amount of time wasted switching from one task to another was slashed.
What does your work day look like? How many different tasks are you switching between and how often? Every interruption to address an email (and then go back to what you were doing) is a huge waste of time and productivity.
What if you batched up work tasks? And then paused meaningfully in between them? How would your day look? How much more would you get done? How less stressed would you be?
