Productivity Quotes - Page 23

• ... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Strong, Self Esteem, Opportunity

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.32, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

  Jan Hatzius

  Data, Alternatives, Looks

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• Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.

  Geri Larkin

  Phones, Doors, Lunch

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• Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

  John C. Maxwell

  Differences, People, Focus

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• The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Usa, Class

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure to suffering or productivity to work or gratification to sacrifice or any of that stuff, which, you know, a couple generations ago, to say that kind of stuff would have made you, you know, a freak - a freak and an Epicurean - and now seems to be so much - simply an unquestioned assumption of the culture that we don't really even talk about it anymore.

  David Foster Wallace

  Couple, Sacrifice, Ideas

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

  Woody Allen

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education instead. This would have led to future productivity increases.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Running, War, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.

  Tony Abbott

  Jobs, Regulation, Prosperity

  Australia politics live with Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  Alex Campbell

  Mean, Excellence, Progress

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• A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

  Herbert Simon

  Attention, Information, Poverty

  "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World". "Communication, and the Public Interest". Book by Martin Greenberger, pp. 40-41, 1971.

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• In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Victory, Important, Analysis

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• The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Cooperation, Individual, Social

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.44, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.

  Alfie Kohn

  Powerful, Reality, Quality

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

  Peter Drucker

  Taught Us, People, Adoption

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• By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.

  Mark Krikorian

  Growth, Progress, Immigration

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• Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy...the word "no".

  Robin Sharma

  Tools, Easy

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 21, 2013

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• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  Gabe Newell

  Games, Play, Differences

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Effort, Mind, Relaxation

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• I'm excited to just have somebody that I can protect. Someone I can make sure is superloved and never really experiences the turmoil that I went through with my family, to just have a really loving environment that grows intelligent and in love and breathes happiness and productivity.

  Nick Carter

  Intelligent, Environment, Excited

  "Nick Carter Reveals What He's Most Looking Forward to About Becoming a Dad". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 27, 2016.

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• 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. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.

  Ivanka Trump

  Keys, Perspective, Focus

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.

  David Bornstein

  Hands, Two, Yield

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

  Isabel Allende

  Space, People, Age

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, Zero, World

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

  David Rolf

  War, Today, Typical

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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