PW 4: Productivity and tools
The principal tools of production today are not machinery and equipment. Neither is it solely the brainpower of the managerial leadership. Rather, the tools of production are the ideas and talents (the intellectual capital) of the scientist, the machinist, and the programmer. Therefore, the possessors of the intellectual tools of production, the pe
... See moreJames A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
Every day, we expend time, and we expend effort. Do you end up with more valuable tools at the end of the day, or have you simply performed tasks for someone else?
Seth Godin • This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans (Create a Strategy to Elevate Your Career, Community & Life)
Digital tools designed to enhance our productivity and help us manage information have proliferated over the past two decades. These tools are great for tracking and executing tasks, but less helpful when it comes to figuring out what work we should be doing in the first place.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
This is the future of work
Not man versus machine—but man with machine
Not just personal productivity—but organizational transformation
Not man versus machine—but man with machine
Not just personal productivity—but organizational transformation
Tiago Forte • Tweet
The carefully engineered systems of factories were replaced with the “personal productivity” of offices, in which individuals deploy their own ad hoc and often ill-defined collection of tools and hacks to make sense of their jobs, with no one really knowing how anyone else is managing their work.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Once again similarities between Drucker’s thinking on the matter and that of his predecessors, particularly Marx, are clear. As Marx would write in the Grundrisse, But to the degree that large industry develops, the creation of real wealth comes to depend less on labour time and on the amount of labour employed than on the power of the agencies set
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