I just learned about the book The Lazy Way to Success by Fred Gratzon and Lawrence Sheaff. Subtitled "How to Do Nothing and Accomplish Everything," the text argues against the notion that hard work and success are related.
While napping at work was all the rage during the boom -- and the book reminds me ever so slightly of the thesis to Jacques Werth's work in high-probability selling -- the overall theme seems like so much like low-hanging fruit.
And that, FC Now readers, the Consultant Debunking Unit pulped in 1997.
Still, there's got to be a reason why people continue to stage productions of the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." But not I'm not going to work too hard to figure that out.
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October 9, 2003 at 5:34pm by Fred Gratzon
While looking through my web site's statistics, I noticed several people visited my book's site (www.lazyway.net) via an August 20 post from Heath Row. I thank you for the plug, but I am afraid you guessed wrongly about my book's theme. (The Lazy Way to Success: How to Do Nothing and Accomplish Everything)
My book's premise is that success is inversely proportional to hard work. You see, most people do not know how to do less properly. When they do less, they accomplish less. Because this is their everyday experience, they naturally conclude that to accomplish more they must worker harder and do more. That is not only inefficient, it is limiting and exhausting.
But if one knows the magical way of doing less, then much much more gets accomplished. With this fresh angle, one can completely avoid work altogether and fulfill one's goals, no matter what one's aspirations are. Doing less CORRECTLY is what accomplishes more.
It is the lazy person, using his or her creativity TO AVOID WORK, that drives all progress in society.
My book establishes a new paradigm. It is especially insightful when it discusses problem solving. Almost everyone, when confronted with a problem, thinks they are solving it by attacking the problem. Nothing could be more futile.
If you want my opinion, my web site is worth visiting and my book is definitely worth reading.