If you reduce the price of productivity and risk-taking, i.e. taxes, you'll get more of those good things.
"Our most important priority for 2006 must be improving discipline around controls, risk productivity and managing volatility, " Black and Winters said in the internal memo.
On inflation, the Fed chairman said that while high energy prices continue to be a source of risk, ongoing productivity gains in the labor market should keep wage increases--still the biggest driver of overall inflation--under control.
"The U.S. economy will be stronger if we can continue to foster an entrepreneurial spirit and culture which generates innovation, risk taking and productivity growth that raises living standards to keep America the economic envy of the world, " Paulson told the Senate Finance Committee.
By lightening the burden on risk-taking, productivity and labor, we get more of these good things.
The company has maintained this vision for over 40 years and now enables its clients to use GIS every day to better equip Public Safety personnel, examine political leanings, manage risk, increase productivity and perform countless other vital tasks.
Unlike managers invested in historical decisions, and legacy assets, employees understand that without productivity their long-term employment is at risk.
Perhaps, in a time of abundant liquidity, they thought that all the slicing and dicing done by the mortgage industry and its Wall Street allies had spread the risk sufficiently thin that a genuine productivity payoff in finance was at hand and no great upset was in store.
Thus, if Scrum and Agile are focused on the traditional business goal of making money for shareholders, rather than delighting the customer, then there is a risk that the huge gains in productivity that Scrum and Agile generate will be used to downsize the software development staff, thereby killing the very creativity and innovation that are responsible for the gains.
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Japan must cut income tax rates substantially, which would reduce the price and burden of risk-taking and reward success and productivity.
"Productivity should benefit the collective, not put it at risk, " Ferriss told CNN by e-mail.
As a matter of fact, eliminating risk altogether would also eliminate the innovation and productivity that drives the creation of jobs and wealth in America.
Officials from the council (CEA) and the White House have kept mum about the report's findings, but we do know it will address the following issues: productivity growth, pro-growth tax policy, the fiscal challenges facing Medicare, catastrophe risk insurance, energy and infrastructure in the transportation sector, currency markets, international trade and investment and immigration.
Otherwise there was a risk of "chasing qualifications for their own sake" with very little impact on productivity.
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Many have become (perhaps excessively) risk averse, as is also reflected in a sharp decline in corporate investment even as their productivity, exports and profits soar.
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But the IT department with its risk-averse, slow-moving, heavy-handed culture threatens to torpedo hoped-for productivity.
Until we can predict college returns more accurately, students and their families should think in terms of reducing investment risk, says Richard Vedder, an Ohio University professor and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a Washington-based advocacy group.
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