Lots of national governments - and other agencies- make calls to their populace for a productivity revolution. They are simply urging people to work harder.
Bu we know that productivity revolutions do not occur because people work harder or when people work longer hours (despite what Jeb Bush might think).
So, a 'call to arms' is unlikely to be effective.
Governments need to do more - to build a strategy (or at least a plan) for productivity development involving policy and infrastructure elements (macroeconomics, regulation, transport, telecoms, education, skills). They need to build a potential for higher productivity which enlightened firms can exploit. Individuals might then respond with higher productivity.
Bu we know that productivity revolutions do not occur because people work harder or when people work longer hours (despite what Jeb Bush might think).
So, a 'call to arms' is unlikely to be effective.
Governments need to do more - to build a strategy (or at least a plan) for productivity development involving policy and infrastructure elements (macroeconomics, regulation, transport, telecoms, education, skills). They need to build a potential for higher productivity which enlightened firms can exploit. Individuals might then respond with higher productivity.
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