Save a Day a Week by Cutting out Unnecessary Work
The average employee’s productivity within the workplace is little more than a few hours a day. So why are people stuck in the office from early morning until evening, complaining of a poor work-life balance? International CEO and management guru Kevan Hall talks to Nicola O’Connell about the epidemic of unnecessary work that plagues today’s offices.
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Sep 23 2008
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Sep 24 2008
9:35 am
A very interesting piece… Eric Schmidt at Google justifies the 20% rule on the basis that
“It forces the conversation with a manager who is over-managing… I come to you and I say the project is late, you guys have screwed up, my classic old management style and you sit there and say you know what, I’m gonna give you everything I’ve got 80% of the time.. It forces the dialogue, it serves as a check and balance on this sort of command and control management that a lot of companies have…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juRkmecQD-8 - 47:05 for the quote…
I would not be surprised if there is at least 20% lost productivity in the majority of organisations, of any size!
I picked up on this theme when I wrote The war for talent is over and we’ve won!
http://www.fourgroups.com/blog/archives/04/the-war-for-talent-is-over-and-weve-won/