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Where Will Your New Employees Come From?

By |March 29th, 2025|Categories: Economics, Productivity|

Times are tough for both commercial organisations and governments in terms of recruiting the labour needed for economic growth.  Employment is high in most developed countries and there is a trend towards disengagement and ’quiet quitting’.

Building Engagement

By |March 22nd, 2025|Categories: Productivity|

Engaged employees are more productive.   This is not surprising.  If employees feel they have a  significant part to play in the organisation they work for, they are much more likely to share the goals of the organisation and to

Improving Productivity in the Modern Workplace

By |March 15th, 2025|Categories: Productivity|

Over the last two decades and especially since the pandemic -  the workplace has undergone significant transformations. The rise of technology-driven companies brought flat hierarchies, attractive employee perks, and open-office concepts. Meanwhile, the integration of productivity

Thankyou, Sergey

By |March 8th, 2025|Categories: Productivity|

Last week, I asked “What should we measure?” And talked about the need to measure outputs/outcomes rather than inputs - in terms of workers’ contributions.  Working long hours is not a key to success.  Those

What Should We Measure?

By |March 1st, 2025|Categories: Productivity|

There is an old management adage… “If we can measure it, we can understand it”.  This is broadly true.  Certainly if we don’t measure, we find it hard to assess or judge. So. if we want to

Engage and Reward

By |February 22nd, 2025|Categories: Productivity|

I have written before about my belief that WFH imposes a brake on productivity.  There are all sorts of reasons - big and small.  The other day I thought of another reason which I thought I should

Don’t Multitask

By |February 15th, 2025|Categories: Productivity|

If, on reading this headline, your first response was “If I don’t multitask, how do I get through my long and varied To Do list?”, then read on. If you switch regularly snd swiftly between

Use Intelligence Before Using AI

By |January 25th, 2025|Categories: Innovation, Productivity|

AI is certainly ‘the next big thing’ with many claiming it as a transformational tool.  Whether it is or not, only time - and productivity statistics - will tell. However, the sheer volume of publicity being

Set Goals at the Right Level

By |January 18th, 2025|Categories: Productivity|

Organisational strategies obviously work at the corporate level - they are overarching, sometimes summed up as BHAGs - Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals. Such goals are useful in expressing the longer term direction for, and aims

Which Decisions?

By |January 12th, 2025|Categories: Productivity|

Clearly industry leaders havre difficult decisions to make at particular times and under particular circumstances.   At all times, these difficult decisions should be informed by the overarching organisational mission and strategic plan. However, we are particularly

Where Digital Tools Fail

By |December 28th, 2024|Categories: Innovation, Productivity|

Technology has been a significant driver of enhanced productivity over the last several decades.  Now many are predicting that AI will be the next major revolution. However, the current crop of digital tools (including AI) is,

Trust is the Key

By |December 7th, 2024|Categories: Ethics, Productivity|

Bad title.  There is no one key to productivity. Yet, research shows a strong correlation between mutual trust and performance in organisations. Mutual trust means that: Senior leaders trust employees Managers trust their team members Managers

Failure is a Route to Success

By |November 23rd, 2024|Categories: Innovation, Productivity|

Most business people are aware that failure can be a useful learning process - allowing those who are part of the failure to learn lessons about what went wrong and/or where they could have improved

America Leeds

By |November 2nd, 2024|Categories: National Productivity, Productivity|

Even though productivity has been rising slowly in the last few years, America still tops the international league table for productivity.  Why is this? Well, possibly the most significant reasons are: Firstly, America is a high-tech

No Secret to Improved Productivity

By |October 26th, 2024|Categories: Productivity|

There are thousands of articles, book - even blog posts - promising you the Top 5 (or 6 or 21) secrets to productivity. However, I have disappointing news..  There is no one secret, no magic bullet,

Where Can We Successfully Apply AI?

By |October 19th, 2024|Categories: Productivity|

I am slightly sceptical about the great productivity gains suggested for AI.  I hope I am wrong but I think it may take quite some time before the ‘intelligence’ of AI gives solid results.  That is not

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