Solving Canada's productivity woes, one workplace at a time

When we reward excellence, we inspire it, and when we tolerate mediocrity, we breed it, writes Howard Levitt. It’s time employers and employees rediscover that excellence depends on accountability. Photo by Pexels/Postmedia files

This trilogy is not about nostalgia. It is about economic survival. If we continue to reward mediocrity it will lead to ruination. To remain successful as a society, we need leaders who are fair, fearless, and who believe in the value of accountability, consequences and merit. Here’s the first, on accountability.

Canada’s greatest productivity crisis is not economic. It is cultural .

Walk into almost any Canadian workplace today, public or private, corporate or not-for-profit, and you will encounter the same invisible contagion: a quiet, polite, bureauc