Productivity

The End of Management?

23 August 2010 0 comments

A recent Wall Street Journal article by Alan Murray has posed the question about the end of management, with a silly subtitle we will get to shortly.  The article is part of a book called The Guide to Management.  The part of the article which is interesting is the discussion of the advent of professional [...]

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How Multitasking Erodes Productivity

24 June 2010 0 comments

The dangers of multitasking received some attention on the heels of a report published by the British Institute of Psychiatry back in 2005.  In addition to finding that multitasking erodes productivity, it also found amusing impacts which it likened to smoking pot and taking 10 points off of an employees IQ.

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Back Office Productivity Goals – How Come These Never Exist

10 May 2010 0 comments

For some reason, the back office seems to never have productivity goals or at least not in the same way as the manufacturing side of the business.  I started thinking about this in the context of a series of articles this week fretting about whether US companies have achieved better productivity by actually working better [...]

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