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SMART is the New RICH 12/24/2013 4:27:56 PM
It is indeed true according to my novel"...Smart is the New Rich" that
the open office plan where employees are visible to their managers hinders productivity. A leading Media research fellow Bernstein experimented with the theory of my book titled: “SMART is the New Rich,” by Herman Yenwo
He embeds subjects who were quietly shown "better ways" of accomplishing tasks by their peers. His goal was to prove that the open office plan where employees are visible to their managers hindered productivity.
His theory is to remind leaders that sometimes you just need to let your workers work. If you're going to stress transparency
at your organization, which by many rights you should, accept that it's a two-way street. If you want greater productivity,
loosen up your policies or don't worry so much if they're broken. As one commenter on the Working Knowledge article puts it,
"It's called 'delegation': i.e., living with the fact that others may do things differently from you, while still being productive."
There's another side to that equation. Your policies might be in place for a reason. If so, recognize that asking for higher
productivity might require cutting corners that are better left uncut.
