A.R. Moxon: Our Purpose Isn't Efficiency

[Nevilledog]

https://www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-isnt-efficiency/

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It's time for us to reframe the American spirit by renewing our own minds. It's time to demolish the foolish notions we picked up along the way. So today I'm thinking about one way we can do that. I'm thinking about what we talk about when we talk about efficiency.

We're going to talk about dishwashers, and slave prisons, and the U.S. Postal Service, and (unfortunately) Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

And then I want to discuss our damn fool notions around efficiency—a phrase I enjoy because it is both accurate and because one can imagine Mark Twain saying it from a porch as he sips a mint julep in a crisp white suit.

Let's talk about efficiency.

We talk about efficiency a lot these days, if you haven't noticed. A lot of times the word is deployed without much care to what it means, so let's not make that mistake here.

Simplified, "efficiency" is when a machine or system of some sort produces the same output with less energy or less waste, or both. You get more for less. Nice, right? Who wouldn't want efficiency? Efficiency is a great big deal, and a good thing too, maybe, as long as it helps us. In fact we have a whole (fake) federal department that (we're told) was made specifically (and illegally) to monitor and foster efficiency, so surely efficiency must be on the rise in this young and foolish country of mine. Good times!

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1. The most efficient business model is the WORKER OWNED business.

No MBA would ever admit it.