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How to Kill Your Organizational Productivity

  • ansoim
  • Jun 13, 2024
  • 3 min read

Updated: Jul 2, 2024


Organizational Productivity

Are you tired of the constant push to improve manufacturing productivity? Sick of hearing about management methods and jargon?

If you want to keep things just as they are and even take a step back, you're in the right place.


Welcome to the ultimate guide on How to Kill Your Organizational Productivity.


Forget about boosting efficiency. Let's dive into some foolproof strategies to ensure your productivity stays delightfully stagnant. Ready to embrace inefficiency and chaos? Let's get started!


Day 1: The Power of Pointless Meetings


Start your journey with a series of lengthy, soul-crushing meetings. Invite everyone, especially those with nothing to do with the topic. Discuss everything except the actual work that needs to be done. Bonus points if you can turn a 30-minute discussion into a full-day seminar.



Day 2: Email Overload Extravaganza


Flood everyone's inbox with an endless stream of emails. Make sure they're CC'd to the entire company. Send memos about memos, and create long email threads debating the colour of the break room walls. Remember, a distracted employee is a non-productive employee.



Day 3: Micromanagement Mania


Embrace your inner control freak. Hover over your employees' shoulders, scrutinizing every move they make. Correct their minor mistakes in real-time, ensuring they constantly feel observed and utterly demoralized. Productivity is sure to plummet when no one feels trusted.



Day 4: Inspiration by Indecision


Hold a brainstorming session to gather new ideas, but make sure no decision is ever made. Encourage endless debate and change the priorities every few hours. This will ensure that no project ever gets completed on time, if at all.



Day 5: The Great Gossip Gala


Encourage a culture where gossip and rumours thrive. Set up a "gossip corner" in the break room where employees can discuss the latest office drama. When everyone is busy talking about who did what over the weekend, nobody has time to focus on work.



Day 6: Tech Torture


Stick with outdated technology prone to crashing and slower than a dial-up modem. If anyone suggests an upgrade, create a committee to evaluate the proposal, then bury it in red tape. Productivity can't improve when half the day is spent rebooting computers.



Day 7: Reward Randomness


Implement a rewards system based on random factors. Employee of the Month? Pick someone who happened to walk by your office at the right moment. This ensures that hard work and dedication are seen as futile, effectively demotivating your entire workforce.



Bonus:


Never Do Plan vs. Actual Monitoring with Deviation Analysis


Why bother with those pesky charts and graphs? Just wing it! Planning is overrated. Who needs to know if you're on track when you can just guess and hope for the best?


Make Decisions Based on Your Perception


Who cares what the customer actually wants? Base all your decisions on gut feelings and hunches. Intuition over information! If it feels right, it must be right.


Unrealistic Targets


Set a target of 2 days for material availability, even if your manufacturing lead time is 15 days. Deadlines are just suggestions, after all. The thrill of the impossible is sure to keep everyone on their toes!



Conclusion:


Remember, improving productivity is for the birds. Embrace the inefficiency, cherish the chaos, and let your organization's culture shine in all its glorious counter-productivity. Because who needs Manufacturing Excellence when you can have a workplace that runs on pure, unadulterated dysfunction?


Statutory Warning: Side effects may include: skyrocketing frustration levels, a mass exodus of your best employees, and a possible drop in profits. Proceed with humour and caution.

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