[ Productivity vs Organised ]

Expecting to “increase productivity” in knowledge work is a flawed target. Increasing productivity works when there’s a direct relationship between increased input and increased outputs. But humans don’t work that way. Humans don’t function like a production line where the same widget is added the same way repeatedly. Work in the knowledge sector is more chaotic and unpredictable than that.

A better way to ‘increase productivity’ is to get more organised with the work and the workflow. This means strategies such as time planning, time blocking, task capturing, task categorisation, intentional prioritisation decisions, and daily, weekly, and quarterly goal planning.