Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.
From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.
Music is a means of spreading the good word and spreading positivity and productivity. Those things speak to me.
Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.
We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.
At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.
What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.
There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.
Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.
Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.
The U.K. and the U.S. are quite similar in that they have high-productivity, English-speaking workforces who don't mind working long hours. Working in those countries is not a problem.
A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.
Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened jobs for humans.
The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.
There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.
Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.
Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.
In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.
Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.
There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.
I believe productivity is a deeply personal thing. We all have different brains and, therefore, different preferences, perspectives, and situations where we feel most effective.
50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.
Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.
The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.
Along with the rise of inequality, the slowdown in productivity growth, and the shrinking of the middle class, the spiraling cost of living has become a central facet of American economic life.
While governments are not off the hook, the charity world needs to innovate and find new ways to attract outside investment to boost our social productivity.
We want trade agreements that aid development and increase prosperity, growth and productivity at home and in our trade partner countries.
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.
In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
Hunting, fishing, and trapping is literally perfect. It's the perfect system by which to balance and ground the animal populations for next year's productivity.
Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
Without productivity gains, any growth in GDP is exactly offset by population growth, and the average income stays the same.
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you'll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.
The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.
By starting to pay attention to our natural soundscapes, businesses can reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, and increase profits.
Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.
Usually when we finish a game and we're at the end, we're sick of it. We want to put it in the box and be done with it. But with 'Borderlands,' it's actually become a productivity sink at Gearbox, because we're just having fun.
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