Micro-productivity: How leaders can make small changes to create huge leaps in performance
Every minute of every work day, there are several (or, in fact, many) managers that are inadvertently killing their team’s productivity. They are doing this through expecting their team to be at their beck and call, responding to IMs or emails within a few minutes.
They do this by constantly interrupting their team – because it’s okay for managers to interrupt people, isn’t it? And they spread out many, many meetings across the course of the week, many of which are not helping anyone make progress on their most important projects.
Indeed, Adobe’s Consumer Email Survey, conducted across 1000 white collar revealed that executives spend 23 hours per week in meetings – and their subordinates are probably not that far behind.
