Set yourself a goal of not only reading about productivity, but developing a collection of 10 time management techniques that you use every day- a quiver of productivity weapons that become central to your working life.

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It seems driven by an ethic of developing protocols that will raise productivity, and thus demand for higher skilled, higher paying, jobs, without driving up taxes, cost of labor, or cost of other inputs.

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Mr Greider chooses a global-crisis scenario, arguing among other things that the world is suffering from a shortage of consumption (an excess of saving) because workers in developing countries earn less than their productivity would indicate.

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Businesses usually increase productivity or output per hour worked by developing labor-saving devices and processes, in recent years that has involved computers.

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The root challenge is to improve the low productivity of 1.5 billion small farmers in the developing world.

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Many people are developing what I call the Short Calendar Attitude, which serves as a drain to productivity and mental toughness.

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Many fear that this talent drain will have lasting economic repercussions on the developing world, robbing it not only of the skills of these workers but also of their influence on the productivity of others.

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