Comments on: Productivity – What is it?

By: Fire (or keep) the Workaholics | Productivity501

Fire (or keep) the Workaholics | Productivity501 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:01:50 +0000

[...] of starting a business yourself. Behind the work you do is a problem that needs solved. Your work solves this problem. Your paycheck reflects that somewhere in the value chain, someone is willing to pay for your [...]

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:02:51 +0000

Very good point. I once came into a consulting job where someone else had been working on some technical issues for 6 months. I remember one particular issue that they had been trying to fix for the past half a year that I fixed in 45 seconds. Even if I made 1000x what the other person did, I was still a better deal.

And even that isn’t as bad as the people who do real damage and put you in a position that is worse than where you started.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:55:24 +0000

Interesting post about productivity.

I have been a consultant for many years and the interesting thing to me is that often prospective clients will talk with several other consultants and will mistakenly think that all consultants get the same amount of work done in an hour and therefore make their decision based on hourly rate. They think that they is going to be their least expensive solution and many times it can be the most expensive because the person they select either can’t get the job done at all or it takes them much longer to do it.

Just my two cents on this topic.

By: Never Hire An MBA | Productivity501

Never Hire An MBA | Productivity501 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:33:14 +0000

[...] need to cut back, they generally want to get rid of the employees that have the least amount of productivity according to this formula. In many situations the highly productive employees are often many times more productive than the [...]

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:19:36 +0000

Well there are other ways to make it more complicated, but if nothing else this gives people a framework to think about how their boss views their work.

By: Craig Thomas

Craig Thomas — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:41:20 +0000

Nice post, the formula is very interesting. But, so you think its that straight-forward to value productivity? Nice examples on personal productivity btw.