Productivity: address personal factors

[amyjko]

I appreciated that the chapter touched on personal factors that affect productivity, but I would have also appreciated if it touched on the fact that productivity is even harder to define for those like me with ADHD or other neurodivergence, for whom productivity takes vastly different shapes and can even look different from day to day.

As I was reading this I thought it was going to show itself around the bend any second, but it never did, which was including how procrastination itself is a factor in lowering productivity. It is something that should be considered when discussing this topic and I surely thought at the end when the engineer was being profiled it was going to be mentioned in a brief section, but it wasn't. I guess that would fall under controversy out of the above categories, but I don't feel it is that strong or big of a deal.  I don't pretend to know that maybe that would have created too big of an article or moved the point away from the main topic too much. There are many factors I am sure. Good read.

The final section of the chapter, regarding the personal factors that shape productivity (outside of professional/organizational factors), may be improved by associating personal factors with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (source: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html (Links to an external site.)). This may help a reader better understand how basic and psychological needs must be met for a person to enter the (productive) space of self-actualization. This may help strengthen the idea that organizational productivity can be improved by to ensuring people's needs are met. --

Alannah's note: Please don't actually use Maslow's if you implement this feedback -- it's outdated, reductive, ableist, acephobic, western-centric, and Maslow was a eugenicist

I feel that the chapter could have spent more time highlighting the different ways to respond to the various causes of loss in productivity. For example, numerous examples of personal factors that may hinder productivity are listed, but there is very little on how teams should navigate these issues and limit their effect on productivity.