If you're on LinkedIn at all, you've seen the classic "Efficiency vs. Value" dichotomy. While stating that teams should focus on delivering value and not efficiency makes for a punchy post, elevating one while ignoring the other doesn't make sense.

Caring about efficiency doesn't mean you don't care about value. If you care about producing value (which you should), one of the best ways you can do this is by increasing your efficiency, thus getting things into the hands of users more quickly and getting their feedback quickly.

So if the false "efficiency vs. value" dichotomy ever makes you feel like caring about efficiency comes at the expense of delivering value, this episode is here to tell you that you CAN and actually MUST successfully care about both.