Quantum Performance

Leaders with foresight are always looking for ways to raise the profile of their companies and improve performance. On matters of engagement, however, trends show that the UK is slow to incorporate people-centric policies. As a result, economies suffer nationally and for the companies concerned. Are we falling short on believing in ourselves?

Culture Amp, an American company, report in their 2025 survey results that, “People in Manufacturing were much more positive than average regarding Decision Making and Social Connections. On the lower side, people in Manufacturing had much lower favourable scores than average in Learning & Development.” Their findings show higher levels of engagement in the industrial sector than in other fields. 

People Insight, based in the UK, paint a different picture. They found that nearly 90% of employees are disengaged from their job, leaving the UK with the lowest engagement in Europe and costing the economy billions of pounds each year. However, “across hundreds of thousands of data points, we discovered 88% of employees care about the future of their company.”

With practical approaches to problem-solving and a technically-focused mindset, people in engineering should be enjoying a head start in creating a proactive, thriving culture even from a history of resistance. For as People Insight attest, “The benefits of employee engagement can’t be overlooked, with research showing that highly-engaged businesses are 21% more profitable than those without an engaged workforce.”

Why should the UK be suffering such shortfalls in employee welfare? Knowing as we do that staff who are happy at their place of work outperform those who are demotivated, what’s stopping UK companies from progressing their cultural health?

• Employee Retention. Happiness at work translates into loyalty, so it follows that an engaged workforce stays engaged, and being happy, stays together.

• Autonomy and Flexibility have long been recognised as factors in workplace satisfaction. Micro-management and dictatorships push people into corners from which they long to escape.

• Diversity and Inclusion. Often mentioned in mission statements, less frequently acted upon, D&I initiatives become increasingly important as a fluid job market continues to expand its cultural demands. 

• Recognition and Reward. Personnel commonly feel undervalued when quality of work is taken for granted and attempts to achieve excellence are ignored. This decreases commitment and effort, in turn resulting in lower productivity and quality output.

• Innovation and Morale. People get bored with routine. Stimulus is important to prevent auto-pilot causing errors and blockages in production, so an element of creativity is essential to get verve and enthusiasm into innovative implementations.

Taking all these factors  into account, the scope of application may appear to be vast but in fact they are interconnected. In the mix of elements listed here you’ll find communication, collaboration, training and development, continuous improvement, proactivity and time-management to be naturally occurring ingredients that spring from the source of creation. 

In quantum mechanics, three critical laws abound.

Uncertainty - an absolute given, we can't bypass it or trade it for certainty and shouldn't try. Attempts to baulk uncertainty are against the law.

Superposition means you are continually in multiple positions, which can lead to confusion in decision-making processes. Clarity cuts through superpositioned fuzz, leaving you free to focus on what makes sense, and act on what can practicably be done.

Wave-particle duality puts you in an entirely fresh situation every nanosecond of every day. The version of you reading this now is a wave form by the time you've read the last word. You are about to step into another present, and right now you have - and so on.

For some reason as yet unknown, no event or object can replicate identically to another at the quantum level. This manifests macroscopically in snowflakes, grains of sand, human beings. Everything, everywhere, is unique.

Quantum physics is powerful stuff, and it works, universally. Utilising its conditions and capacities in everyday life enables us to work more productively, reasonably effortlessly, because once the reasons why there are no restrictions become clear, you actively take command of a progressive process that creates the version of reality you want there to be.

Imagine quantum capability extrapolated across the world!

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