We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
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We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
Jim Highsmith is on target when he says, “Productivity measures in general make little sense in knowledge work.”13 Designing good software and infrastructure, solving business problems, and creating IT strategies are knowledge work.
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The stock market is at record highs and life expectancy in the U.S. is decreasing. In the richest nation in the richest time in human history, 43% of Americans can’t pay their bills. Many of our most significant societal problems are also, not coincidentally, extremely profitable industries (fossil fuels, junk food, prescription drugs, and for-prof... See more
Yancey Strickler • Page Not Found – Collab Fund
In 1967, for example, a US business association launched a new measure called the Consumer Confidence Index, asking a nationally representative sample of the population on a regular basis to report their intention to spend more in the coming months than in those just past. It proved a powerful proxy indicator for GDP, and expressed the story – and
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