I just wish articles like this would lead with a tiny bit of research. The web is flooded with "here's how I think you can work better" articles, but very few go beyond personal anecdotes. As such, many of them are just not that useful. Here are few things that would've been beneficial in giving a better foundation to this article - it would've been a much better starting point for actually taking action, for one thi…
Or, more likely, "here's how I think I can work better; you give it a try too".
The Productivity Cycle
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Re: The Productivity Cycle
#42I just wish articles like this would lead with a tiny bit of research. The web is flooded with "here's how I think you can work better" articles, but very few go beyond personal anecdotes. As such, many of them are just not that useful. Here are few things that would've been beneficial in giving a better foundation to this article - it would've been a much better starting point for actually taking action, for one thi…
While the Hawthorne Effect is widely cited, even after many years the results have not been reliably reproduced so it should be invoked cautiously.
(N.B., since on re-reading this is less than clear from my original post: I did not intend to give a definitive answer to any of the items raised in the article. I do not possess the knowledge to do so. I merely intended to point out trivial starting points for research for this article)