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Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Every conversation had more and more examples of peer success – “my uncle made a lot of money on it and has flipped two houses” – and a greater conviction that I was full of shit for trying to warn people about a bubble. But, since I ended up already doing much of this analysis, and because I’m the kind of asshole who thinks Akerlof’s and Romer’s “Looting” paper is cracking reading and genuinely enjoy this sort of thing, here’s a quick gallop over a couple of the issues. The worst case scenario is that you keep the productivity intervention because internal studies show a 5-10% boost in task sequences and use that to reduce headcount by 5-10%, triggering an organisation-wide cascade of dysfunction and a death cycle.
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