Manage Smarter 63 — Edward Tenner: Increased Efficiency is Not Always Good

Manage Smarter podcast with Audrey Strong, C. Lee Smith and Edward Tenner

Edward Tenner began his career as a Ph.D. in history, became science editor and then an executive editor at Princeton University Press where he published a list from bird field guides to Richard Feynman's QED, and since 1991 has been an independent writer and speaker. His books include Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity, and most recently The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do.

In this episode, Audrey, Lee and Edward discuss:

  • Why becoming more efficient can have unintended consequences
  • Campbell’s Law: How measuring new efficiencies may make your staff change behavior to meet new incentives
  • How Big Data affects you and your business and can cause “Competitor Neglect.”
  • The pitfalls of false positives 

"Pursuing too much efficiency in the short term can make us less efficient in the long term. And by that I mean we need the right dose of inefficiency in order to create future efficiencies."

– Edward Tenner 


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C. Lee Smith

CEO and Founder at SalesFuel
C. Lee Smith is the President/​CEO of SalesFuel — a firm he founded in 1989. He was named one of the 14 Leading Sales Consultants by Selling Power magazine in 2018. Lee is the creator of the AdMall® and SalesFuel COACH™ SaaS platforms. He is also a Gitomer Certified Advisor, expert on the Sales Experts Channel and a C‑Suite Network Advisor.
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