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You’re on target with the productivity list.

Obviously, there are multiple perspectives that can be raised with this topic, including that of the employer — most often made out to be an evil entity that has nothing better to do than to suck the life out of its worker bees.

Clearly, the model in place in most organizations isn’t the best we should be able to come up with. Some observers would claim it’s like democracy — a horrible system…just better than any of the others out there. I don’t agree with that opinion but I can understand management’s reluctance to toss out the known for the unknown.

Perhaps if business wasn’t accountable to “the street” every 90 days, with the impending doom and gloom is you fall short of projections or are trending badly, there would be less emphasis on David Allen and others who sell management that they are the answer to hitting the numbers. There would be time to take a breath and consider alternatives.

The unfortunate truth is that small business generally copies big business, so any practice like GTD spreads virally and before you know it it’s everywhere. Great for David Allen, as well as the person who follows him with the “next big thing.”

If it is to change it will be because a charismatic leader will emerge with a different system that incorporates beneficial concepts for both the company and individual, and where their output blows the doors off the competition. The business media will fawn all over the leader who gets a book deal, does the interview circuit, and reveals his/her secrets for the “new” corporation. Then, the copycats will remake the workplace in his/her image and all will be right with the world.

Until David Allen stages his comeback.

- Unfortunately, wages+benefits are controlled by the laws of supply and demand as much by cultural/corporate norms. If everyone’s productivity rises the same amount, relatively speaking, no one’s productivity rises. Unless I’m much more productive than those around me today rather than how people were 40 years ago, I will not command amazingly higher wages. It’s like Scott Adams (Dilbert) talking about how if there was a pill that suddenly made sleep unnecessary, the workforce would effectively double (or so) and wages would cut in half.
Again, I agree with you that we should work less, just because we don’t need to work nearly as much we do (40 hours is totally arbitrary nowadays) but disagree with your argument. I also don’t think corporations are supposed to give us this, we have to get it for ourselves. For myself, I work part-time and take the monetary hit for the extra time (which makes me happier than the extra money would anyway). You can also sometimes find pro-rated full-time jobs. I also recently quit my part-time job because it was soul crushing, but I have some money saved up so this isn’t an option for many people.
- Medieval peasants didn’t enjoy the standard of living we enjoy. The poorest among us have access to better resources than kings of old.
- One of the supporters of the 40 hour work week was Henry Ford, who believed that people working less would be better for the economy, turned out he was write. Going back to the medieval age is fine, but let’s not forget what happened before 1940s.
- As someone has mentioned in the comments already, Many places in Europe already work less than Americans/Canucks do. Blogs such as this, 4 hour work week and flex-work agreements suggest that we are moving towards a social change that may signal less work for us over here in North America, too. For myself, I’d love to be able to take a siesta every day and party into the night.
- You think that’s messed up? A prostitute (devine brown) made 1.6 million dollars for fellating one man (Hugh Grant), which was interrupted, so I’d imagine she prolly made 1.6 million dollars as a consequence of less than 20 minutes of work.

Like I said, I agree with the spirit of what you say, but I disagree with your arguments. Keep it up!

I think # 11 “The best way to increase productivity is often to quit a lot of things” is a very good tip. Often time people have too much stuff on their minds and life which are unnecessary. I think minimalism (http://thinkneat.blogspot.com/2008/06/minimalist-living.html) in life automatically boosts productivity