Productivity.

Whenever you talk in the abstract or the generic to a large group of people, every single person thinks that you're talking to them. Except for you, because you're special and smart.

- Merlin Mann

I designed, organised, advertised and prepared for five presentations on Good Decision Making open to the public.

An hour. Free.

No one registered for the first one.

Two people registered for the second. Neither turned up.

We cancelled the rest.

Lots of possible reasons why. All my fault.

Meanwhile...

A study has found that bosses are losing an average of three months per year of productivity from each worker.

Those with the most unused 'discretionary effort' were knowledge workers.

One of the conclusions was lack of clarity about outcomes. Widgets.

Australians spend more hours at work than those in most other countries and yet according to another study, we rank second last on productivity growth, just ahead of Botswana.

Perhaps everyone who read about my Workshop was part of the 7.5% who considered themselves productive.

None of this applies to you and me though.