What Do You Do With an Idea?
"The job is, however, not to set priorities. That is easy. Everybody can do it. The reason why so few executives concentrate is the difficulty of setting 'posteriorities'—that is, deciding what tasks not to tackle—and of sticking to the decision."
“Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the 'disorganizer,' ... See more
“Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the 'disorganizer,' ... See more
3 journal prompts + 3 Drucker quotes
The result is that most people have thought jobs without being given much time to think, which is the equivalent of making a ditch-digger work without a shovel. Maybe this is why productivity growth is half of what it used to be.
Lazy Work, Good Work
What’s needed is more intentional thinking about what we mean by “productivity” in the knowledge sector—seeking ideas that start from the premise that these efforts must be sustainable and engaging for the actual humans doing the work. Slow productivity is one example of this thinking, but it shouldn’t be the only one. My long-term wish is that thi
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“Ideas and plans are essential to innovation,” he remarked, “but the time has to be right.”
Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Valuable new ideas have become quite scarce, and so the small number of people who hold the rights to new ideas—whether it be the useful Facebook or the more dubious forms of mortgage-backed securities—earned higher relative returns than in earlier periods. The “rise in income inequality” and the “slowdown in ideas production” are two ways of descr
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