Sentences with phrase «which is productive»

This seems to suppose that environmentalism, or anything which is productive in the effort to mitigate climate change through carbon emissions reduction is above ideological interest, and not something which can be manipulated for private gain.

On the expenditure side, a company may pay for equipment with cash, but the accountants depreciate the equipment over the time during which it is productive.

In addition, make sure you work in a space which is productive to you (at home, in the library, etc).

When you create, you invoke your imagination, which is a productive and constructive use of your mind.

Not exact matches

You will be able to gain insight into which employees are most productive, employees who take the most vacation time, and similar information that can help in your labor planning.

All of which sounds super familiar to me (and also, I should note, is borne out by productivity research - December is far from the most productive month of the year.)

And in a recent New Yorker profile of Apple's senior vice-president of whiz - bangery, Sir Jony Ive, it was revealed that the company's famed design studio is rarely silent — but neither is there a consensus on which tunes are the most productive.

Oshima claims that its newest farm, which opened in Newark in May, will be the world's most productive indoor farm by output once it reaches full capacity.

This way, you can properly monitor where your traffic is coming from and judge which channel sources are the most productive.

Stanford Business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer said that there are plenty of examples in the business world in which self - management indeed leads to more efficient and productive companies, but Hsieh's March 2015 memo is an example of how he's going about things the wrong way.

The CD Howe Institute has argued the deduction carries a cost to the economy by shifting investment from large companies to small ones, which are less productive.

David Starkey, who works in production planning and inventory control at a manufacturing company in Ajax, Ont., sits through upwards of four meetings each day, of which he says half are productive and necessary.

At the same time, you won't be targeting or segmenting your audience appropriately, which defeats the purpose of using some of these tools to save time, remain productive and reach your marketing goals.

Unless you have time to waste, your energy is better spent in a productive conversation, which you'll find elsewhere.

Here's what Slack's founder, Stewart Butterfield, has to say about staying productive — «We just went through this process of canceling almost every recurring meeting that we had to see which ones we really needed.»

Instead, it might bring on another wave of grief and sadness, which wouldn't be productive in a job that involves helping people overcome depression.

These days, I typically work from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., which I find is my most productive part of the day.

Companies in which employees think it's productive to address the needs of «internal customers» are on the fast track to failure.

According to one: «Expanding our ability to create productive and large manufacturing operations is necessary for Ontario and Quebec, which do not have the resource base other provinces have.»

Not only are his 200 workers likely to stick around longer, he says, they're more productive, and they do a better job, which is important to Klock, whose company provides high - end all - natural food to some of the biggest organic retailers in the country.

Since rookies are encountering most experiences for the first time, it's easy to let the imagination run to the worst - case scenario, which is hardly productive.

The bottom line: «What Gibson and Shrader found was that sleep has a definite effect on productivity, which in turn might affect worker wages (the more productive you are at work, the more likely you either score a raise or get compensated with tips).»

And before you think, «Well, employees don't have to love their job, they just have to do their job,» remember that unhappy employees are less engaged, less productive, and more likely to leave the company — all of which can negatively affect your bottom line.

Which means getting the right technology in place so employees have access to the tools, applications, data and even people to be just as - if not more - productive than they would be in a traditional office setting.

Trump won 60 % of the votes cast in the 17 - county congressional district, which is home to the state's aircraft manufacturing industry and has some of the most productive farmland in the region.

The only surefire way to optimize your time is to cultivate personalized analytics to determine which of your activities are most productive.

Which is a much more productive use of your angst than just sitting and seething at coworkers for thinking that they're overpaid.»

I try hard not to check e-mails until I get to the office, which is usually between 9:30 and 10 a.m. Reading e-mails at home never feels good or productive.

In those face - to - face meetings, clients would want to spend the first five minutes talking about what worked, and 55 minutes about what went wrong, which is understandable if not all that productive.

Churchill was a night owl, but he took two baths and a two hour nap every afternoon, which he claimed allowed him to be twice as productive as the normal person Naps were so sacrosanct to Churchill that he unapologetically kept a bed in the House of Parliament.

Poor health can be expensive too, and stress makes people less productive at work, which causes other problems, said Joshua Riff, Medical Director at Target Corporation, at the Harvard stress forum.

Finally, Gowel advises, don't let LinkedIn turn into a «professional version of Candy Crush,» in which you waste a lot of time without being productive.

More than half of respondents believe the single platform of the future will help save time (which is money), be more productive, and create better organization and communication with their colleagues.

This can cause a spike in the blood sugar, which isn't productive for sleep or maintaining consistent sleep patterns.

Most of us feel compelled to make sure that our day is as productive as possible, which can lead to feeling guilty over taking breaks.

If you are generous with vacation time, requests for days and afternoons off or lenient during longer lunch hours for mid-day sales, your employees will feel less anxious about having to get everything done for the season, which helps ensure their time on the clock is productive.

Not only are they a waste of time and money, but they keep people from engaging in tasks that might be far more productive — and profitable for the businesses in which they work.

His answer was brilliant: according to Welch, employees must always come first because happy employees are productive employees, which in turn creates happy customers, which in turn generates the healthy profits that investors love.

I was pretty productive today, but at the end I had to sit through a loooong meeting from 3 to 5 p.m., which made me SO tired.

are 75 percent more productive than those who work in traditional offices — which has inspired some companies to encourage their staff to get out of the main office and into these workspaces.

Google's People Operations department has scrutinized everything from how frequently particular people eat together (the most productive employees tend to build larger networks by rotating dining companions) to which traits the best managers share (unsurprisingly, good communication and avoiding micromanaging is critical; more shocking, this was news to many Google managers).

For example, it can generate what Pattison calls «a profit map,» which analyzes the expenses and profits tied to each part of the field, and tells farmers not just which fields are most productive, but which areas of each field make the most money.

Technology improvements have probably made small businesses more productive, which might explain the employee numbers, but that should mean that revenue is climbing, not flatlining.

And according to Bisnow, people who work in coworking spaces are 75 percent more productive than those who work in traditional offices — which has inspired some companies to encourage their staff to get out of the main office and into these workspaces.

But if we're so damn productive in steel, which should imply competitive pricing, why are we by far the world's largest importer with persistent net imbalances?

A country of hard working, productive ants, in other words, will not be rewarded with a high trade surplus, but rather with a high GDP, which should translate into a higher quality of life.

These are a few of the places I escaped to get productive, while writing The Most Powerful Brand on Earth, which helps organizations design and operate Employee Advocacy programs, across industries: Max's Wine Dive — downtown The Amli on 2nd — Downtown Abel's — Lake Austin Mozart's — Lake Austin Hula Hut — Lake Austin -LSB-...]

But given the existential threat of climate change, or for that matter, the general state of our public goods, I find it awfully hard to accept the contention that there's nothing productive in which to invest the excess savings surplus countries continue to send our way.

While some of this might be happening, if you look at the data you will see that almost all the growth in credit is used to fund infrastructure, real estate and manufacturing projects, in which case if the investments were productive, GDP growth would have caught up to credit growth within 3 - 4 years at most.

The experiment was initially set up to see which factory conditions make workers most productive.