Calculating productivity is equivalent to keeping a finger on your organization’s pulse; you’re able to see if anything changed and take action where necessary.

There is a simple general formula to calculate productivity:

Productivity = Output / Input

Input = 40 (# of employees) x 9 (# of hours of work per day) x 6 (# of months) x 18 (# of days worked in a month). = 38,880.

Productivity = 200,000 / 38,880 = 5.14

For every hour, 5.14 of output was produced. In other words, the company produced 5.14 laptops every hour.

feat. Eric Barker

The human brain is the most amazing thing in the universe. It got us to the moon, built the pyramids, cured smallpox… And it also can’t seem to go 6 minutes without checking Facebook.

5 Secrets From Neuroscience

  1️⃣  Stop multitasking. You wouldn’t try to lift 5000 pounds. Your body can’t do that. Don’t try to do your best work while checking email, texting, and posting to Instagram. Your brain can’t do that.

  2️⃣  Exercise. You know it’s good for your body. Guess what? Your brain’s part of your body. (Shocking, I know.)

  3️⃣  Meditate. Simply put, meditation is attention training.

  4️⃣  Call your mother nature. Looking at a picture of a tree is like a deep tissue massage for your brain.

  5️⃣  Reduce interference. Remove anything from your environment that might distract you. Batch email and social media. Extend the time between breaks to build your attention muscles.

Deep work — focus on one thing, free of distractions.

Shallow work — only needs a little time and focus.

Here is the magical formula for productivity:

High quality work produced = (time spent) x (intensity of focus)

How to Do It:

Lesson 1: Use one of 4 deep work philosophies, but be intentional.

# The monastic approach. It means shutting yourself off completely, and not come back until finish.

# The bimodal approach. 4-6 hour block each day for deep work.

# The rhythmic approach. This chunks down your work into time blocks, similar to the Pomodoro technique, and uses a calendar to track your progress.

# The journalistic approach. Simply dedicate any, unexpected free time to deep work.

Lesson 2: Make the most of unproductive time with productive meditation.

If you’re taking the subway to work each morning, and know you have 30 minutes to and from work, use this time to try solving a complex problem in your mind.

Lesson 3: Quit work at the same time each day, and stick to it.

No emails, no internet, no to-do lists, no computer after that. This way, you’ll have a fixed slot of free time every day to recuperate.

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