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Why Is Technology Not Producing Productivity Improvements?

The Horizons Tracker

Official data reveals that while GDP grew by around 2.7% AI Achievers are showing their peers what’s possible when you release the full potential of talent and technology, working in tandem, supported by a clear vision and commitment to change. Historically this figure has been higher than GDP by around 0.5% generated around $1.4

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New Report Explores The Changing Nature Of R&D

The Horizons Tracker

of GDP on research and development by 2027. The UK government has recently set an ambitious target of spending 2.4% Alas, a new report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) suggests that at the current rate, this mark won’t be reached until 2053, which would represents an overshoot of some 26 years!

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The Economic and Social Impact of Language

Mills Scofield

Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. Hundreds died in a killing spree committed by police and other government officials. Hundreds of thousands are suffering due to groundwater contaminated by nuclear waste.

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Wise Economic Decision Making

Coaching Tip

CEOs across the country want to make sure the economy is growing robustly before they commit to new hiring. percentage points from GDP, based on the average of 2010's first three quarters. Exercising creative thinking and discretionary behavior could be the basis for wise decision making for their stakeholders. .

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How to Become Truly Social

Coaching Tip

That requires moving from coercive or motivational leadership that uses sticks or carrots to extract performance and allegiance out of people to inspirational leadership that inspires commitment and innovation and hope in people. 9) Treat business as inseparable from life.

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When America Was Most Innovative, and Why

Harvard Business Review

The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. It predicts that an innovative state like Massachusetts, which from 1900 to 2000 had four times as many patents as a less innovative state, like Wyoming, would become 30% richer in terms of GDP per capita by 2000.

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A Benefit of the Mechanization of War: Savings on Veterans’ Benefits

Harvard Business Review

Thus, committing troops to a war zone has lasting implications for fiscal policy: Depending on the scope of the conflict, the government’s obligation to pay veterans’ benefits can run as high as 50% of the nation’s prewar GDP, according to a study of U.S. wars by Ryan D. Edwards of the City University of New York.

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