Unequal Productivity, “Good Management” and Notion

1. Unequal Productivity.

One of the hardest things about designing productivity systems is making them universally applicable to everyone.

I regularly have discussions with business people and other consultants about their productivity setups, and some will rave about how their way of working is the one and only best way of working.

But.

Just because a system is productive for them, it doesn’t mean that it is productive for others.

It works for them because of their identity, their behaviours, their beliefs and their past experiences. Those are all different for other people.

2. Why Bother With Good Management?

Do you need “good management” to run a successful business?

No.

I would argue that the most important things in business are actually:

1. The opportunity.
2. The ability to sell.

But there is a but.

Without good management, it will be chaos — and this will wear on you, and your team.

You will work hard, play hard, and burn out.

All this can be avoided with?good management systems.

3. Notion.

I love Notion.

It is?fantastic?as a team wiki.

But it doesn’t replace Slack. And it doesn’t replace Asana (yet).

A former client recently asked me what the difference is.

Well…

Trying to use Notion to replace Slack would be like having a shared Microsoft Word document and trying to communicate with each other by adding in a new paragraph one person at a time.

Trying to use Notion to replace Asana (or any other project management tool) is like being asked to build your own project management spreadsheet. Possible, but finicky.

That’s it for this week!

— Aaron

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