http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2005/02/organizing-for-efficiency.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2005/02/organizing-for-efficiency.html/comment-page-1#comment-61 Jim Bullock Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:47:03 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8184#comment-61 Hey JR. I wonder. Perhaps talk of "efficiency" in this sense - when it doesn't work - ought to be called "theoretical efficiency", or perhaps "apparent efficiency" or even "ill-concieved efficiency." Designing a process for "efficiency" in terms of a situation you don't have isn't efficiency at all. I wonder whether in addition to the guidance on what to do, a note about abuse of language might also help. "Efficiency" is the bang / buck you get, not the bang / buck you think you ought to get in some world that isn't the case. Hey JR.
I wonder. Perhaps talk of “efficiency” in this sense – when it doesn’t work – ought to be called “theoretical efficiency”, or perhaps “apparent efficiency” or even “ill-concieved efficiency.”
Designing a process for “efficiency” in terms of a situation you don’t have isn’t efficiency at all. I wonder whether in addition to the guidance on what to do, a note about abuse of language might also help. “Efficiency” is the bang / buck you get, not the bang / buck you think you ought to get in some world that isn’t the case.

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