Slow Productivity

Just thought I would share an interesting audio book.  The knowledge worker segment which includes Safety Professionals has suffered from pandemic induced burnout, and zoom meeting fatigue. The audio book “Slow Productivity” by Cal Newport advocates an approach that channels your effort on to priority tasks that are completed individually in order of importance. By doing this it increases the quality of work while reducing the impact of “productivity termites”.

The best thing about this process is that by focusing concentrated effort on the high priority tasks more value is derived from work activities. Another benefit is that people feel more in control of task management and less frustrated with poor task completion and overwhelming workload expectations.

As a person always looking for an incremental improvement the audio book has a few good ideas to ponder. Enjoy!