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At the beginning, I thought there was a chicken and egg issue: Because people are less engaged, they are less productive.
Or vice versa, because they are less productive, we put more pressure and they are less engaged.
Democracy, in order to work, requires that reasonable men and women take the time to understand and debate difficult, sometimes complex issues, and they do so in an atmosphere which strives for the type of understanding that leads to, if not agreement, then at least a productive and workable compromise.
It means limiting future risk by minimizing harm to people and planet, and it means providing capital to users who deploy it towards productive and sustainable outcomes.
It strikes me as a better goal, and, dare I say, a more virtuous one, to focus on making productive kids and moral kids, and to simply hope that happiness will come to them by virtue of the good that they do and their accomplishments and the love that they feel from us.
We have to invest in our cities, and we have to invest wisely, and if we do, we'll see cleaner cities, quieter cities, safer cities, more attractive cities, more productive cities, and stronger community in those cities — public transport, recycling, reusing, all sorts of things that bring communities together.
So, it's a very productive system.
Gray whales off America migrate 16,000 kilometers between productive feeding areas and less productive calving, or birthing, areas and back every year.
I learned a lot about how individual crew members actually cope with a situation like this; how you can keep a crew productive and happy, for example, giving them a good deal of autonomy is a good trick to do that; and honestly, I learned a lot about leadership, because I was a crew commander.
He wanted to know what could make his chickens more productive, so he devised a beautiful experiment.
The individually productive chickens had only achieved their success by suppressing the productivity of the rest.
If the only way the most productive can be successful is by suppressing the productivity of the rest, then we badly need to find a better way to work and a richer way to live.
So what is it that makes some groups obviously more successful and more productive than others?
In one study designed to measure the effects of adversity on children at risk, among a subset of 698 children who experienced the most severe and extreme conditions, fully one-third grew up to lead healthy, successful and productive lives.
Socioeconomically, bug production could uplift people in developing countries since insect farms can be small scale, highly productive, and yet relatively inexpensive to keep.
A mountain of idle cash belonging to rich savers and to corporations, too terrified to invest it into the productive activities that can generate the incomes from which you can extinguish the mountain of debts and which can produce all those things that humanity desperately needs, like green energy.
After this productive period, signals within the skin instruct some follicles to enter a new phase known as catagen, or the regressing stage, causing hair follicles to shrink to a fraction of their original length.
And so what that means is more trips per hour, more minutes of the hour where they're productive and actually, earnings come up.
So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something productive, but the Monkey doesn't like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, "Actually, let's read the entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, because I just remembered that that happened.
Sometimes it actually gets us onto a more productive path.
And those are the times they're most productive.
I want the calm, productive way.
When farmers become more productive, then more than half the world's poor earn more money and climb out of poverty.
So when farmers become more productive, they earn more food, and they don't just help themselves, but they help to feed healthy communities and thriving economies.
And when farmers become more productive, they reduce environmental pressure.
We only have two ways we can feed the world: we can either make our existing farmland a lot more productive, or we can clear cut forest and savannah to make more farmland, which would be environmentally disastrous.
When farmers become more productive, they earn more income, they climb out of poverty, they feed their communities and they reduce environmental land pressure.
It was not until we innovated with the sonification process that I regained the hope to be a productive member of the field that I had worked so hard to be part of.
He committed a crime; he's paying his debt, and working hard to build the skills to make the transition back to a productive life when he enters the civilian population again.
When we work together to develop more diverse and inclusive teams, data shows we will be more innovative, more productive and more profitable.
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