Why our unhealthy obsession with Productivity is WRONG!
My first two VoiceWorks since returning to the fray are up and here is where we will discuss the basic idea they posit. The basic idea is that a focus on productivity should be replaced by a focus on contribution, and that our current focus basically helps up hit the target but miss the point. You can listen to the podcasts at http://www.darreninform.com/podcasts
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There are glorious examples of companies and organisations that have got it right- both in terms of culture and focus. Sadly they are dwarfed by the companies that still behave badly, lie to not only their customers, but to their shareholders, staff AND Government auditors (Carillion for example, who manipulated the books whilst putting smaller, local sub-contracted businesses OUT of business with unreasonable terms and criminal, fraudulent actions). More often we find managers and leaders who try to expose the issues being frozen out and made to leave, even when it's clear that unless they change, their short term gains and financial rewards will eventually lead to the end of the business itself.
Worse, most companies fall somewhere in the middle and manage themselves by established practices based on easy to measure productivity gains and targets. They're not bad, just perpetuating an out of date mode of thinking.