Welcome to Amanda’s semi-regular blog, where she writes about how to improve business profitability
Task level improvements don’t drive productivity
In a recent Forbes.com article, Carter Busse makes the point that company productivity does not come from tasks, rather it is derived from well-structured processes.
It’s a sentiment with which I agree. There are thousands of books on personal productivity and yet we continue to suffer from poor, or stagnant productivity and have done so now for over fifteen years.
Have you outgrown your current software?
If software had a sell-by date I’m sure that UK productivity would be far higher than it has been since 2008.
To overcome lethargy focus on promise
Improving productivity requires us to change what we are doing, and do things differently. As humans we resist change. We often like the idea, provided it doesn’t affect us.
What's distracting you?
Distraction is a state. Things that distract, divide our attention or prevent our concentration. The word itself has its roots in latin – ‘distractus’ meaning to draw apart. We humans have been suffering distraction for centuries, the word itself dating back to 1350-1400 in Middle England.