Productivity Blog

I wrote the following piece for my great friend and colleague, Jimmy Quinn’s company, Meridian Productivity, Ltd.  They have since posted it on the web site and blog.  With their agreement, I have now posted it on my blog. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/james-g-jimmy-quinn-ma-mps-a014a66_to-mask-or-not-to-mask-that-is-the-question-activity-6675812606655139841-7xEn I hope you find it informative and I further hope you stay healthy, stay safe and sat sane!

Whether or not you agree with the reopening of the economies in your state or country, it seems to be a coming reality.  Ultimately that means that at some point now or in the future, you will probably begin to be back on the road again.  Zoom’ing may exist but those who have worked in most businesses, know that being able to look your client in the eye is still … Continue reading →

 My last post was on the same subject Zoombombing.  There are some great activities occurring here like groups of singers from the Met Opera in New York to others doing jazz, etc.  All of which are intended to keep our moods up.  Other use Zoom for taking care of business.  I recently came across this series of simple steps in the New York Times to follow which should help you … Continue reading →

Undoubtedly, I am just like the vast majority of the population, I am at home in quarantine.  To all those who are still working, whether you are medical professionals, grocery and drug store staff, first responders, mail personnel or any number of others–THANK YOU!! To those of you who are working from home, I had begun collecting a series of articles about this exact situation but I started before we … Continue reading →

In today’s environment of tight employment, I found this effort by the management of this company to be refreshing and above all, intelligent.  It helps to solve one of the bigger problems businesses in America are currently being confronted with.  While undoubtedly doing something like this in your own company, the benefits will be substantial to your organization, but also to your local economy amongst others.  Thank you Ruth Simon … Continue reading →

You may have noticed that I took some time off from this blog.  Well, I am back; ready and raring to go in continuing my quest to help CEO’s and businesses worldwide to improve their productivity.   Hopefully, I will be adding to this site important and appropriate material at least once a week, if not more often.

As I said in my last posting, CEO’s and other executives go to many different trainings and get great ideas about how to better understand their people.  This is whether they are C-Suite Executives, Middle Managers, Supervisors or the workers who actually make it all work.  No matter, they come back invigorated with fresh and new ideas and for the most part they fail to put those great ideas into … Continue reading →

All too often, whether you are playing the stock market or you are in business, you are confronted with the question of what is best.   Is it best going for the short term and getting those short term wins and not caring about how it effects your workers, and so forth or strategizing for the long term advantages.  An article today (December 27, 2016) in the Wall Street Journal … Continue reading →

Some recent news for those of you following the goings-on in Springfield.  The governor, Pat Quinn has made a slight step in the right direction, calling the Illinois state lawmakers back to the capitol for a special session on June 19th.  His impetus,  Fitch Ratings cut the state’s credit ratings Monday and Moody’s Investors Service did the same on Thursday.  It is now official, Illinois has the lowest rating among all … Continue reading →

Well you probably expected something on productivity, and yes you are going to get something on productivity.  The effect that terrible leadership has on productivity…the productivity of legislators.  Many of you may or may not know about the scandalous situation that has recently occurred in Springfield, Illinois as the end of the term of the Illinois Legislature came to a conclusion.  The primary leaders we are going to talk about are … Continue reading →