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Productivity (Profitability)

PRODUCTIVITY IS ABOUT GETTING THE TASK ACCOMPLISHED. It is about action in reality that produces a desired outcome. Productivity includes the creation of physical goods. Growing corn and building automobiles are productive activities. Writing a book, giving a speech, or developing a computer program are also productive activities. The creation of ideas and the transmission of those ideas into useful reality can be very productive.

At the individual level, productivity is typically driven by a fundamental psychological commitment to get the job done. There is a basic psychological difference between high performance ...

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