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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It

Markovitz Consulting

All too often, that quest goes no further than time management training provided by the HR department. Edwards Deming argued in his book Out of the Crisis , 94% of most problems and possibilities for improvement belong to the system, not the individual. I would argue that most productivity improvements belong there as well.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

The lower reimbursement and need to provide 24/7 coverage that makes a primary-care-based system so appealing to policy makers and others has long been shown to be a source of burnout and challenges in getting medical students to choose careers in primary care. The last thing that this group of providers desires is more responsibility.

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