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  • be productive or die

    be productive or die

    original publish date: 13th October, 2011

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    FTE #1: What are you planning to do to improve your team's productivity?

    FTE #2: I'll be maintaining headcount levels as the work increases.

    FTE #1: Hoping that'll motivate your team to figure out how to do things better so they aren't working twelve hour days?

    FTE #2: People say necessity is the mother of invention

    Caption: How most managers approach productivity.