Quotes About Streamlining

Ask those responsible for each activity to identify how other activities within the company improve or detract from their performance. Second, are there ways to strengthen how activities and groups of activities reinforce one another? Finally, could changes in one activity eliminate the need to perform others?

His attitude to the clutter of daily life was of a piece with his strategy for dealing with social demands. Unless you are kicking yourself once a month for throwing something away, you are not throwing enough away, he said. Everything that didn't seem to Amos obviously important he chucked, and thus what he saved acquired the interest of objects that have survived a pitiless culling.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Keep it simple, so you'll keep doing it.

The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines.

You want to be inclusive, but you can't be to the extent of having so many people involved that it slows you down.

I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

No gastes neuronas en lo que no funciona.

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

Freed capacity is the result of process time reduction through the elimination of wasteful activities and/or optimizing work.

designing the ability to operate with fewer customer complaints, less firefighting, and reduced interdepartmental tension brings tremendous hope to leaders and their staffs who may be feeling the pressure from an underperforming value stream.

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

The way to get the most out of your work and your life is to go as small as possible.

Pareto points us in a very clear direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t.

There is an art to clearing away the clutter and focusing on what matters most. It is simple and it is transferable. It just requires the courage to take a different approach." —George Anders

You have only so much time and energy, so when you spread yourself out, you end up spread thin. You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition: You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The problem with trying to do too much

the ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?