I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done.

The action point is to make a list of three new products or services that have failed and will fail because the organization ignored the public good. This is an interesting exercise. The company I work at is in healthcare so our focus is on helping others get well. From a products and services perspective I don’t have a ton of insight. From a managing people and inter-company workings I am very opinionated about things.

Within IT I think we’re too wrapped up in planning and paperwork. It’s very close to my experience working in local government for several years. To get anything done is over-engineered or questioned into oblivion. It makes it hard to get things in place.

The pandemic has impacted everyone. A lot of companies are going to a remote workforce. I see this as an issue for managers, because distance makes it harder to manage people. I don’t think a majority of managers are prepared for what this will take. I think over the next two to three years we’ll start seeing cracks in productivity and efficiency.

The third one I’ll have to think about.