The second is that the most productive, cost-effective way for the federal government to advance this process is to serve as a catalyst for change by leveraging its distinctive capabilities to influence others in support of these reforms.
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While this approach can be tempting, it usually ends up being counter-productive and will likely cost your organization more in the long run.
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Because the output of a wind turbine also tends to increase proportionally with its distance from barriers such as trees or buildings, the most productive -- and cost-effective -- turbines sit atop tall towers erected on an acre or more of open land.
Shifting middle-class responsibilities to government both increases their cost and burdens the most productive.
Improve operational efficiencies, expense control and service through investments in technology and more productive use of existing resources and lower-cost operations centers.
None can say much about where the cost of breakfast goods, gold or productive business assets might go from here.
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Why then not go for simplicity and cost-effectiveness rather than counter-productive gimmicks?
In fact, hiking the current levy on payrolls to shore up Social Security and Medicare would have the perverse effect of weakening the economy by raising the cost of labor and reducing the rewards of productive work.
There is a huge qualitative difference between an economy built on natural resource extraction, where the populace is a cost center, and an economy built on productive labor by the population, where increasing capabilities of the society leads to more wealth.
That accumulated savings and investment is not a cost to the economy, it is a mighty, productive contributor to the economy.
Robert Stephenson, son of George and one of the principal figures behind the expansion of Britain's railways, reckoned that a network that was just as productive could have been built for a third less than the actual cost.
Finally, having started with a clean sheet, Emirates has a flat management structure and the kind of flexible, highly productive workforce that carriers such as strike-torn BA and high-cost Lufthansa can only dream of.
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But he says crops must be replanted to adapt to equipment, at a cost of thousands of dollars an acre, and farmers don't want to uproot productive trees.
On top of putting the entire financial system at risk, the hidden cost has been hundreds of billions of dollars funneled into the housing market instead of more productive assets.
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