People often underestimate how brittle attempts to improve the world are.
Altruism, at a large scale, often hinges on a chain of assumptions/requirements, such as:
A & B & C & D & E
One broken link in the chain means it looks like you're doing good but you're not really doing it.
For example, to help the world by delivering medicine, the chain might look like this:
The medicine reliably cures the disease
& the side effects are not worse than being...
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How Do You Increase The Productivity Of A Team You Are On Or That You Lead? A Simple Framework
We can think about "productivity" in terms of how much value a team creates (according to any particular measure of value) on average each month.
With that definition in mind, there are many reasons a work team may have low productivity. To make a team more productive, I suggest first trying to pinpoint the predominant causes of inefficiency, since different failure points typically have different solutions. The key is to identify and then focus on just the 1-3 of these causes that seem to b...
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