Set fewer goals: focus on greatness, not productivity.
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Not every productivity task is optimally done on tablet software, of course.
On the other hand, if the work is isolated or requires a small number of players, the Cloud may not improve productivity at all.
The iPad is not about productivity benefits (the sales pitch for most PCs and laptops) nor communications benefits (the sales pitch for most mobile computing gadgets).
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This is not people productivity, but equipment and infrastructure.
Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate and writer on the politics of famine, says rising demand (for example, from the Asian middle classes) and not failing productivity is the main reason for the current crisis.
The main difference between the more flexible economies (meaning not just America but also Britain, Canada, New Zealand and others) and less flexible ones (Germany, France, the Netherlands and others) is not in productivity or even jobs but in the distribution of income.
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The goal of a great business application is not so much productivity in and of itself.
But it is not impossible: productivity could be improved dramatically, especially in the services sector.
More people would be employed today had productivity not grown in recent years.
The tea labourers' unions say they will not accept the productivity-linked wages that the Indian Tea Association has suggested.
Economists call this "underemployment", in the sense that the people holding such jobs are underused and do not contribute to productivity.
The solution, of course, is not to hinder productivity growth to save jobs, but to create the economic environment that achieves both.
Not just for productivity, but as we recently learned from a study in Zambia, there can be large developmental consequences of early childhood exposure to malaria.
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But for the economy as a whole, this can be a zero-sum game: depending on the industry, it may be solely a matter of redistributing profits, not improving overall productivity.
The anecdotal evidence does not support falling productivity thesis.
As the tax hike obviously would not raise worker productivity, employers would be unwilling and unable to bear the tax, and it would be passed on to workers in the form of reduced wages or benefits.
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Data suggest neither big pharmas nor small biotechs have been especially productive, although (as Gary Pisano has shown) pharmas appear to have worse statistics because they have to eat the cost of failures, while small companies tend to disappear, and thus their costs are often not included in productivity calculations.
That application is not only a productivity tool that allows our real estate customers to manage their workflow of contacts and new leads from consumers shopping for homes on Trulia, but also a promotional vehicle for them to show off their local knowledge and stand out to consumers via our check-in feature.
Carew acknowledges the point, but argues that higher productivity does not automatically cancel out jobs.
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Anybody who thinks gold is a substitute for productivity is not a productive thinker.
If subsidies go to industries with fewer competitors, they do not aid innovation or productivity growth.
For Japan, a wealth of potential improvement in productivity resides not far away, in China.
So pharma firms are actually able to reduce their costs but not sacrifice too much productivity.
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They identified education as a profession where labor productivity was not amenable to improvement through technological advance.
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And even here it is not approached head on (because quality is not the same as productivity).
Higher productivity does not have to mean fewer jobs, if demand is going up at the same time.
But unlike in information technology, China has not actually closed the productivity gap with the United States.
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