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How do business leaders think about productivity?

Productivity Puzzles Season 3, Episode 3 was released on Thursday, 30 May 2024

Why should firms and business leaders care about productivity and how does it add to the bottom line? What exactly drives productivity and how can you get better at it? This episode is a conversation with three current and former business leaders talking about how they think about productivity, what it means to them, and what practical productivity measures their firms use.

Host Professor Bart van Ark is joined by:

  • Katy Davies, Managing Director of Evolve Your Future.
  • Lou Cordwell, Special Advisor to the Office of the President and Vice-Chancellor at The University of Manchester and Professor of Innovation at the Alliance Manchester Business School.
  • Greg McDonald, Founder and Executive Chair of Goodfish.

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About Productivity Puzzles

Productivity Puzzles is brought to you by The Productivity Institute, a research body involving nine academic institutions across the UK, eight Regional Productivity Forums throughout the nation, and a national independent Productivity Commission to advise policy makers at all levels of government. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.