The Powerful Secret to Increasing Productivity

Most economists tend to agree that productivity will remain sluggish into 2018, with no signs of marked improvement.  And, although unemployment remains low, the average annual growth in output per worker has actually fallen. 

Yet, the TUC calls Britain’s long hours culture a national disgrace – so aren’t people busy enough already?  Probably! But clearly busyness is not having the positive impact on productivity that one might expect, therefore isn’t it about time that organisations started to help their people to work smarter, not harder? Herein is the secret. Read more about Reflection

Indeed, as time scarcity has become a modern world phenomenon, people appear to have simultaneously adopted a degree of pride in being busy; a way of communicating to others that they are important and contributing to life in general.  In part, busyness has been provoked by around-the-clock connectivity, yet it seems to be exacerbated by people compelled to justify and safeguard their place in a volatile and uncertain world, whatever the price.