I’ve spent a good deal of time and effort over my career learning how to make myself, my teams, and the teams around me more productive.
In fact, my current venture is fundamentally about helping small software teams be more productive. My team and I have been working on and building our product for almost 10 years. We’re pretty darn good at it.
I’ve talked a lot about productivity in this space — time prioritization, working from home, leadership, procrastination, AI, etc. While I stand behind all of it, in some ways, these are strategies and tools that nip around the edges. They’re accelerators and ways to be more efficient. Not quite as insignificant as cleaning up the mouse poop in a room full of elephant dung, but there is an assumption that the person, leader, or team has a fundamental quality.
Purpose.
Purpose is an engine. Purpose is grease. Purpose can’t be stopped.
Everybody is productive when they have purpose.
