The decade Johnston and Clift spent on Hydra was one of intense creative productivity; Johnston wrote nine novels (including My Brother Jack, one jointly with Clift and five detective genre books under the pseudonym Shane Martin).
For the exhibit's press release, Crewdson writes, "It was deep in the forests of Becket, Massachusetts that I finally felt darkness lift, experienced a reconnection with my artistic process, and moved into a period of renewal and intense creative productivity".
Dr. van Biema said managers at several service companies, which are far more numerous than manufacturers, have told him that strategic plans aimed mainly at expansion have given way to intense drives for productivity.
Instead of a cost-plus mentality, we'd have the opposite an intense emphasis on productivity.
Safe Science also mentions faculty independence and intense pressure for productivity as important sources of "potential conflict between a culture of safety and productive grant-supported research".
But across the developing world entrepreneurs are demonstrating that "focused factories", to use the jargon, can use economies of scale and intense specialisation to improve productivity.
