Comments on: Productivity has limits! http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/productivity-has-limits-88 Exploring business and its impact on life with Stever Robbins Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:35:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: carlstormer http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/productivity-has-limits-88#comment-468 carlstormer Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:57:55 +0000 http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/productivity-has-limits-88/#comment-468 Stever, great to read your blog. The question of productivity is interesting when applied to experts. How do you make an expert more productive? Traditionally, we think about how a worker is more productive if a process/task is done faster, better or cheaper. Let's take a musician as an example. How do you make a quartet more productive? You can¨t play faster. You can't play more than one instruments. The only way you can improve productivity is to play better together! And in order to do that, you have to spend more of your energy listning to the other players. And guess what. In order to do that, you have to play less, play simpler things on your instrument or increase your own skill-level. In an expert environment, two days are never the same. Our main job is to interact with others. And in this environment, productivity gain is measured in our ability to fit with the context. It's no longer about doing things 100% right but rather to do the right things 80% of the time. Productivity is enhanced if you can fit your contribution better to the context. Like a comedian, your producivity is measured by your ability to tell the perfect joke for the occation, not to tell the joke in a perfect way... Hope all is well. Check out my JazzCode site: http://www.carlstormer.com. Best, Carl Stever, great to read your blog. The question of productivity is interesting when applied to experts. How do you make an expert more productive? Traditionally, we think about how a worker is more productive if a process/task is done faster, better or cheaper. Let’s take a musician as an example. How do you make a quartet more productive? You can¨t play faster. You can’t play more than one instruments. The only way you can improve productivity is to play better together! And in order to do that, you have to spend more of your energy listning to the other players. And guess what. In order to do that, you have to play less, play simpler things on your instrument or increase your own skill-level.
In an expert environment, two days are never the same. Our main job is to interact with others. And in this environment, productivity gain is measured in our ability to fit with the context. It’s no longer about doing things 100% right but rather to do the right things 80% of the time.

Productivity is enhanced if you can fit your contribution better to the context. Like a comedian, your producivity is measured by your ability to tell the perfect joke for the occation, not to tell the joke in a perfect way…

Hope all is well. Check out my JazzCode site: http://www.carlstormer.com.

Best,

Carl

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