"counterproductive position" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a situation in which the outcome of a choice or strategy has a result that is contrary to the intended aim. For example, a company's decision to reduce staff in an effort to cut costs may result in decreased productivity, a counterproductive position.
Third, by showing no interest in this election, the West further entrenches the counterproductive position that nothing that happens in Abkhazia, or even the views of the people there, have any bearing on any potential resolution to the conflict.
But what the cables highlight is what an awkward, embarrassing, hypocritical and ultimately counterproductive position the whole extraordinary rendition program has boxed the United States into.
Perhaps it has set out to scare young people out of wallowing in their protracted adolescence no matter how counterproductive such a position might be.
Human rights groups argue that the administration's position is counterproductive.
Perhaps painting a generation in broad strokes when it labours under such a heavy inherited social burden, and remains in such a vulnerable position, is counterproductive.
Perhaps painting a generation in broad strokes when it labors under such a heavy inherited social burden, and remains in such a vulnerable position, is counterproductive.
Keep it Positive Negativity gets you nowhere in business which is why dwelling on the state of Europe and the UK's position is counterproductive.
But to accuse President Bush and the Federal Emergency Management Agency of racism, Ford suggests, is to play the race card and is counterproductive, alienating those in a position to help while blinding us to the true nature of these racial injustices and the policies needed to redress them.
In fact, he said the country's current position would prove counterproductive.
Letting go of that hands-on mindset is something that a lot of entrepreneurs struggle with, and that struggle can often lead to retaining counterproductive practices in a new position.
"The interpretation I favor is that they no longer need to be aggressive because they're at the top, and further aggression could be counterproductive, signaling insecurity with their social position.
