The phrase "a productive direction" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a course of action or approach that is expected to yield positive results or outcomes.
Example: "The team has decided to take a productive direction in our project by focusing on collaboration and innovation."
Alternatives: "a constructive path" or "a beneficial course".
But as recent developments and the round-table discussion demonstrated, the industry is moving, if not always in harmony, in a productive direction.
"I try to work with the kids, to get their lives into a productive direction," said Judge Sam D. Walker of the Mount Vernon City Court.
The Studio Museum in Harlem's artists-in-residence program has regularly given contemporary American art a salutary push in a productive direction.
The heaving, muddy chaos spawned variety, eccentricity, sheer colour and richness of experience, and in retrospect something to defy in a productive direction, so that hard work became a habit and I could take nothing for granted.
"It's a national disgrace for America that we will not be a presence in guiding and leading that council in a productive direction, and that under Mr. Bolton's leadership at the U.N., the world's single superpower cannot muster up the necessary votes to win an election".
Our study indicated that predefined CDR sequences with optimized CDR-framework compatibility could be a productive direction of functional library construction for in vitro antibody development.
Zbigniew Brzezinski was on MSNBC's Morning Joe talking with a panel of folks, including his daughter Mika Brzezinski, about his co-authored book with Brent Scowcroft and David Ignatius (which I had a hand in initiating and sponsoring) and about moving in a more productive direction in the Middle East.
He got a break from the school he dreaded and acquired a habit that would prove crucial to his life as a writer: Greene began keeping a dream journal, to help him channel his mental distress in a more productive direction.
"The challenge of market design," McMillan states, "is to devise mechanisms, or to allow mechanisms to evolve, that channel the pursuit of profits in a socially productive direction".
Then I'd spend the remaining time helping this complete stranger identify the stumbling blocks to reaching his goal and point him in a more productive direction.
That might be a more productive direction; this being Mr. Nordstrom's fifth show at Zwirner, his naughty/naïve figuration is wearing thin.
