The Path to Productivity

Avoid burnout:

Stop measuring your people by the hours they put in, and focus instead on the value they produce. Make that your primary measurement. Then encourage your people to intermittently renew during the day (and on weekends, and over vacations), so that when they’re working, they’re really working. That’s the path to true productivity.

—Tony Schwartz, “The Productivity Myth”, HBR.

In his post, Schwartz talks about 3 R’s as key to sustainable, meaningful productivity: rest, renewal, reflection.

Taking breaks from work to rest, renew, and reflect is integral to working better.

Work less. Produce better.