really great to hear about your experiences as well! Very much agree, its a challenge to keep focused on the bucket of ‘important priorities’ and not just get caught up in ‘fire-fighting’ mode. What do you find works for you to keep that focus?
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Thanks so much, Akash! Hopefully it can be helpful!
A lot of this is pretty specific to doing ops for smaller nonprofits—alot of big companies will also have ops staff as well, and they be doing things that are quite different! but the general concept of internal-focus and problem solving will be the same!
hahah love this analogy!
thanks for the kind feedback! It is really satisfying to know you are helping make sure that the org is a good place for people to work and also, hopefully grow and thrive!
so, so agree with this comment, think its a huge oversight:
“-Spot regional differences within countries when answering different types of questions: Even if my country’s GDP is higher than many countries where effective donations according to EA are allocated, there are many regions within my country where poverty is extremely high, even higher than in richer cities from poorer countries. Those differences are hard to spot if EA spots “poverty” as a whole without zooming in geographical zones.”
these are great additional examples, Sara! thanks for adding.
and yes, I completely agree its about ‘removing obstacles before they happen’! good insight!