Mattson Newell

Mattson Newell is Vice President of Global Delivery & Channel Partnerships at Culture Partners (formerly Partners In Leadership), a global culture management firm. He works with Culture Partners' international team of consultants to guide organizations, from startups to Fortune 50 companies including Disney, Nike, and Ford, through what the firm calls the Culture Equation journey.

Avoiding the "Efficiency Trap" That Quietly Caps Productivity

After reviewing dozens of peer-reviewed research papers and interviewing clients, Mattson's team identified two distinct qualities of genuinely productive employees: being efficient (delivering quality work consistently and on time) and creating value (focusing energy on work that actually drives organizational priorities). Organizations that get both right see meaningfully better results, roughly 3.1 times more likely to see revenue growth and 3.6 times more likely to boost profitability, but he cautions leaders against falling into "efficiency traps," where a narrow focus on speed and output quietly crowds out the value-creating work that matters more. Before his current role, he spent years at ESPN in project management and media relations, and has contributed as a columnist for Inc. Magazine on culture, accountability, and leadership.

Topics Mattson speaks on

• Avoiding the "efficiency trap" that caps real productivity
• The two qualities that define genuinely productive employees
• Culture change and its direct link to revenue and profitability
• Building a culture of accountability
• Global delivery and channel partnership strategy for culture consulting

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• Mattson Newell on LinkedIn
• Culture Partners

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