John V. Willshire wrote a blog post titled Cognitive Debt (5 May 2025).
Continue reading “Cognitive Debt and Technical Debt”The Unintended Consequences of Open Offices
Ethan Bernstein and Ben Waber wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The Truth About Open Offices: There are reasons why they don’t produce the desired interactions (November-December 2019).
It is worth noting that the article was published prior to ubiquity of Zoom meetings, but the general insights on human behavior likely stand the test of time.
Continue reading “The Unintended Consequences of Open Offices”So this is what’s happened to the world: optimization trumps human preference
Rory Sutherland wrote an article for Behavioral Scientist titled Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? (17 September 2024).
Continue reading “So this is what’s happened to the world: optimization trumps human preference”The more trusting the environment becomes, the more reliable and productive its participants become
Pamela Meyer wrote an article for MIT Sloan Management Review titled Four Ways to Build a Culture of Honesty and Avoid Productivity Paranoia (4 April 2023).
Continue reading “The more trusting the environment becomes, the more reliable and productive its participants become”Productivity at the Systems Level
Daniel Markovitz wote an article for Harvard Business Review titled Productivity Is About Your Systems, Not Your People (January 05, 2021).
Continue reading “Productivity at the Systems Level”Henry Mintzberg: Destructive productivity
Henry Mintzberg wrote a blog post titled Productive and Destructive Productivity (26 March 2015).
Continue reading “Henry Mintzberg: Destructive productivity”How to Prioritize
Jared Spool wrote an article about how to prioritize using a formula he attributes to Bruce McCarthy.
(Value ÷ Effort) x Confidence = Priority Continue reading “How to Prioritize”
Harvard Business Review: The Implications of Working Without an Office
Ethan Bernstein, Hayley Blunden, Andrew Brodsky, Wonbin Sohn, and Ben Waber wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The Implications of Working Without an Office (July 15, 2020). Continue reading “Harvard Business Review: The Implications of Working Without an Office”
Your Non-linear Problem of 90% Utilization
Jason Cohen wrote a blog post about efficiency titled Your Non-linear Problem of 90% Utilization.
« 90% utilization is causing more fail than you realize, not just in burn-out, but in productivity and output… » Continue reading “Your Non-linear Problem of 90% Utilization”
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