Productivity growth – doing more work faster – is the lifeblood of a nation’s economy. And for nearly a century, the United States has benefited from its employees’ ever increasing and ever efficient labor output. Mysteriously, productivity growth has slowed since 2004, and nobody is quite sure why.

The Power of Done helps explain the next stage of the 21st century’s technology-enabled productivity revolution. In addition to discussing real-time tracking of work inside a single organization, the book describes a more efficient and productive future in which each company’s network of suppliers and service providers also monitors its tasks, assignments, ownership and deadlines.