This is extremely true of companies and teams, and an underappreciated area of endeavor is setting the ambient resting state level of productivity high.
Most organizations do not, for a host of reasons.
Most organizations do not, for a host of reasons.
These include:
* productivity is hard to measure
* there are easier-to-measure proxies, like hours or “appearance of activity”, which crowd out better goals / aspirations
* some people and organizational cultures, for that or other reasons, become hostile to productivity
* productivity is hard to measure
* there are easier-to-measure proxies, like hours or “appearance of activity”, which crowd out better goals / aspirations
* some people and organizational cultures, for that or other reasons, become hostile to productivity
I feel like “Some people will actively sabotage productivity” sounds like a horrible rumor and/or an excuse from a failed organizing principle like communism.
If the existence of the boogeyman seems on face implausible, consider you may have been in extremely successful orgs.
If the existence of the boogeyman seems on face implausible, consider you may have been in extremely successful orgs.
And/or see the Spider-Man cancer/dinosaur panel.
“Wait with your team and budget you could get so much done for our mission this quarter.”
“But I don’t particularly care about our mission. I care about getting promoted.”
“Wait how are you here.”
“I am very good at getting here.”
“Wait with your team and budget you could get so much done for our mission this quarter.”
“But I don’t particularly care about our mission. I care about getting promoted.”
“Wait how are you here.”
“I am very good at getting here.”
“...”
“Or our organization is very good at putting me in a position of influence. Six of one half dozen of the other.”
“I don’t suppose we could change your incentivize structure to be more in line...”
“Already rooted my incentive structure. I am much better at this game.”
“Or our organization is very good at putting me in a position of influence. Six of one half dozen of the other.”
“I don’t suppose we could change your incentivize structure to be more in line...”
“Already rooted my incentive structure. I am much better at this game.”
“Wait that isn’t possible.”
“I mean you specialize in spending 95% of your cycles on the mission and I specialize in spending 95% of my cycles on incentives. Of course I will win any contest here by crushing margins.”
“Nobody detected your insincerity?”
“Oh you innocent child.”
“I mean you specialize in spending 95% of your cycles on the mission and I specialize in spending 95% of my cycles on incentives. Of course I will win any contest here by crushing margins.”
“Nobody detected your insincerity?”
“Oh you innocent child.”
"I mean you're shouting it from the rafters."
"Plausibly nobody is more sincere in this company about our incentive structures which, and I hate to keep bringing this up but it is important you understand this, I have rooted. I can speak passionately and at length about them."
"Plausibly nobody is more sincere in this company about our incentive structures which, and I hate to keep bringing this up but it is important you understand this, I have rooted. I can speak passionately and at length about them."
