The Productivity Improvement Steering Wheel: 7 Powerful Steps Every Leader Can Take

The Productivity Improvement Steering Wheel: 7 Powerful Steps Every Leader Can Take: The topic of productivity improvement has fascinated me for the biggest part of my life.  I recall reading as a young college student about a factory that continued functioning after all its employees went on strike.   The supervisors ran the plant quite successfully for a period of many weeks.  (My question was why they couldn’t continue doing that permanently if it worked well for a few weeks. I wasn’t thinking about maintenance and repair issues.)  But the fact of the matter in decades past was that many organizations simply had more people than they needed.