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Friday Filosophy #2016-9

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Today – for Friday Filosophy #2016-9 – I would like to address productivity. First is the definition. Productivity is an economic measure of output per unit of input. Inputs typically cover labor (other things as well but labor for our purpose today) while output is typically measured in revenues.

Today we are living in “The Computer Age.” How has the computer changed productivity? Is it for the better or not? A recent TED talk I saw highlighted that our world is one where it is now “Brains not Brawn” – “Ideas not Things” – “Mind not Matter.” We are also seeing a decoupling of our economy in traditional ways. Productivity increases have not translated into either more jobs or better pay. So here is our Friday Filosophy for you to contemplate.  Please send me your thoughts or comments. Thanks.

 

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

 

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison

 

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Thomas Sowell

 

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Warren Buffett

 

Nine men impregnating the same woman cannot deliver a baby in a month.

          Ron Slee

 

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

 

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

Timothy Feriss 

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-3

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With our Friday Filosophy #2016-3, I want to continue to focus on education, with some of the terms we like to use to describe intellect.  Intelligence and genius are interesting words with all manner of preconceived notions as to what they mean. So here are some interesting quotes to consider on Intelligence.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein.

 

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

 

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

 

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Aristotle.

 

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking.

 

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire.

 

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch.

 

There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination and wonder.

Ronald Reagan.

 

The time is now.