Increase organization-wide productivity in sustainable ways by choosing a new way of working that emphasizes results and renewal over effort, and then using six strategies to energize this transition.

Build the foundation for reducing overload in your organization and increasing people’s ability to sustain their energy and focus on their top priorities. Here’s how … 

A positive, action-oriented “can-do” culture should lead to unmitigated productivity. However, it does not. Trying to do too much leads many people to accomplish less.

Organizational overload is a troubling fact of today’s business culture. The more overloaded and chaotic the organization, the more difficult it is for the majority of people to do their best and most important work. Typical explanations of the problem – external factors such as market pressures and 24/7 technologies, or the unreliability of poorly organized individual performers – do not give organizations much leverage for solving it.