Smart Teams

Postscript

So here we are, many miles travelled and many pages read. This book has hopefully provided you with some challenging concepts, some exciting ideas and some practical skills. It should also have provided an opportunity for you and your team. Let me describe this opportunity now by analogy.

There are two key ways that an organisation can increase profits. They can make more sales, and therefore more revenue, or they can reduce costs. I think of the personal productivity strategies outlined in my first book, Smart Work, as akin to increasing sales. They are practical strategies that you can implement to increase personal effectiveness.

Smart Teams is more like a cost reduction strategy. If you cut out the waste, the disruption and the friction, you and your team will save time. When you increase sales and cut costs, business booms. When organisations and teams both increase personal productivity and reduce friction, productivity booms!

I wish you the best of luck on your productivity journey. Do something today to start that journey — get stuck in. And get your team involved, because it will be they who build the culture you need to become superproductive.

As the thirtieth president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, said ‘We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.'

What is the something that you will do at once?