Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits

Take the easy road to higher earnings

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” —Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

Picking low-hanging fruit should be easy. Yet despite all the cost cutting and lean six-sigmaing, the branches of corporate trees are sagging from the weight of low-hanging fruit. Why not grab them and make things easy?

Too often managers blind themselves to solutions right in front of them and choose instead to suffer through long meetings, poor collaboration, politics, and bureaucracy. Throw in the challenge of getting agreement when everyone has their own opinion (often “fact-free”) and your low-hanging fruit just withers on the vine.