What is the difference between hard work and smart work?

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Yash said:   8 years ago
I think smart work is a by-product of hard work. When you work hard for a project (suppose on Java) then the next project on java will not require much hard work.
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Mo mo said:   8 years ago
Hard work is when you don't have the tools, resources and time to complete a task well. Smart work is having a plan and the equipment/skills necessary to be successful. It is comfortable, natural to you.
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Simha Reddy said:   8 years ago
Hard Work: Doing things to reach the goal without our knowledge.

Smart Work: Doing the things to reach the goal with knowledge.
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Karampreet kaur said:   8 years ago
Hard work is putting in as many efforts as you can to get the desired results whereas smart work is doing the same things involving lesser efforts but yielding same results. Let me illustrate it with an example.

If you are asked to draw a chair. Some of you may use your physical strength to bring it up but a few of you will use the wheels available to drag it to the position without putting in the much efforts. Former is the hard work. And latter is the smart work.
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Rahul kumar said:   8 years ago
Hard work is when any person make his/her full effort in completing the work within the given time for desired result whereas, smart work is is when a person make less effort and takes less time for completing the work for desired result.
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Vasu Awasthi said:   8 years ago
Hardwork means when you did some work but not present it in front of your boss effectively, resulting not get promoted.

But when you did some work and present it in such a way that your boss get impressed with you, which results your promotion.
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Piyusha swami said:   8 years ago
In smart work we find the different way to excute the job in minimum time effectively. In hardwork we do the job in the traditional or given way effectively which may take more time.
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SRINIVAS said:   8 years ago
Hardwork: Doing work with more time.

Smart work: Doing work with less time and result is same.
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Shubham Kushwaha said:   8 years ago
Hard work : Preparing something upto its root.

Smart work: Preparing something upto its requirements.
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RAHUL TIWARI said:   7 years ago
Hard work is delivering work on time with effort and smart work is delivering work on time with lesser efforts.

I Feel that is the basic difference most of the time in the corporate world, I feel a combination of both is needed to attain excellence and get success.
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