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Cheers!

What do you think productivity concerns? To me it means partly getting the right person and doing things as efficiently as possible.

Because business is not necessarily about maximizing efficiency, it is about maximizing profit.

This is a great truth and is often lost to those striving to be more organized, better looking, more respected, etc.

"Because business is not necessarily about maximizing efficiency, it is about maximizing profit."

Nope, MANAGEMENT is about maximizing profits. Below the management level, it is all about keeping your job by doing what management wants done.

You, GW, demonstrated this in your opening paragraph with doing what I was told to do, even tho it is beneath my training.

From mid level management to the janitorial staff, the primary focus is on keeping your job.

In combat, when you march off to war, it is for God, Country, Flag, patriotism, moms apple pie and freedom. However, when the bullets start flying, you are fighting for only one reason, TO KEEP YOUR SQUAD, YOUR BUDDIES, AND YOUR ASS ALIVE. (and, oddly enough, in that order). In Viet Nam, I never heard anybody say during stand down "I'm glad we won the firefight for our country". They always said "glad we survived this one". Followed by "pass me another beer". LOL

I read once that a business is like monkeys in a tree. Management is on top, and further down the tree are the lower level workers.

The low level workers look up the tree and all they see are A--HOLES, and this makes them laugh. Management looks down the tree, and all they see are smiling, laughing faces, and they think "all is well".Maximizing efficiency in business is a lofty goal, but in the organization, from the CEO to the lowest worker, the real goal is to keep your job.

.......Bob