How To Organize Your Employees Into Teams To Maximize Productivity
UNSPLASH.COM Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Teamwork can have a multiplier effect, cross-pollinating team members’ skills and knowledge. But before you begin corralling employees into distinct units, remember that collaboration can come at a cost. Teams don’t always work out, according to J. Richard Hackman, the late Harvard organizational psychology professor and leading expert […]
How to Have a More Productive Year
In 1959, the same year in which the term “knowledge work” was coined, a chemical engineer turned consultant named James T. McCay published “The Management of Time,” one of the first professional-productivity guides. Early in the book, he lays out the fundamental challenge posed by this new type of work. “Almost without exception, executives have […]
How to Use Obsidian for Writing and Productivity
I’m pretty bad at being an employee. I openly despise meetings, I say exactly what’s on my mind, and I sincerely believe that many managers exist only to waste the time of otherwise productive people. I also could not be less interested in how my work impacts quarterly projections—I want to write things that people […]