Your Productivity Matters

Productivity — as defined in business ("the output of an industrial concern in relation to the materials, labor, etc, it employs") — is rigged against you.  



It sets up a paradox, a conflict: Your productivity is only tracked against what's good for the company in the marketplace. Productivity, as defined by business, doesn't include what's good for YOU. Those are "soft" issues, that matter less (to most, but not all, companies). Then there's personal productivity...



Personal productivity, is how well, or poorly, your assets (time, attention, ideas, knowledge, passion, energy and personal networks/communities) are leveraged to create output for the company and for you.  (See New Work Contract for more)



Nobody at your company is in charge of tracking this. Nobody measures it. Caring about personal productivity is buried in "soft" measures, like "engagement." For example: One would think that time would be a "hard" measure. (e.g., Producing one widget every five minutes). But nobody's tracking how stupid meetings waste your time. Or how much time you had to take away from your family to get that widget designed. Or whether or not you're wasting your own time with how you compose and reply to emails. (Tsk, tsk!)



If you wish to enhance your personal productivity you will need to be disciplined in how you approach your work. Your choices and skill-building determine your personal productivity each day.




...because it stops these sucks. 

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