Quotes About Effectiveness

Si aprovechamos bien tan sólo el 20 % de nuestro tiempo, no nos quedaremos cortos.

80 percent of products, or customers or employees, are only contributing 20 percent of profits; that there is great waste; that the most powerful resources of the company are being held back by a majority of much less effective resources; that profits could be multiplied if more of the best sort of products could be sold, employees hired, or customers attracted (or convinced to buy more from the firm).

being mostly correct and decisive typically yields better results than taking the time to figure out what is perfectly correct.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks.

Although well meant, many things that are designed just to be general purpose often end up satisfying no purpose. Software components should, first and foremost, be designed for use and to fulfill that use well. Effective generality comes from understanding, and understanding leads to simplification.

efficiency is doing the job right, effectiveness is doing the right job.

Knowing your purpose focuses your life. It concentrates your effort and energy on what's important. You become effective by being selective.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Peter Drucker says, "Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

The exploitation phase needs people who thrive on designing effective processes and making things systematic. The disengagement phase requires those who are good at seeing early evidence of decline and unafraid to make the sometimes-difficult decisions to stop doing something. In an organization of any complexity, part of the challenge from the strategists' point of view is that you will have many such waves playing out, in different phases, all at the same time.

The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily.

The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily. "Nevertheless

noise is always a byproduct of inefficiency. A correctly designed engine is as silent as the grave.

Instead of wasting time negotiating with every difficult person, work on spreading a spirit of camaraderie and efficiency that becomes self-policing. Streamline the organization, cutting out waste—in staff, in the irrelevant reports on your desk, in pointless meetings.

BUT WILL IT WORK FOR ME? After decades of tireless research, we have now identified about two-dozen accountability skills that, when used at the right time and delivered in the right fashion, separated positive deviants from everyone else. The questions remaining were (1) when taught, would people actually use the skills, and (2) if they did, would doing so yield better results?

It is the paradox of truly perceiving that the more you do the less effective you are, and the more you hide the more you show.

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.--Simone de Beauvoir

Creemos en un orden particular no porque sea objetivamente cierto, sino porque creer en él nos permite cooperar de manera efectiva y forjar una sociedad mejor. Los órdenes imaginados no son conspiraciones malvadas o espejismos inútiles. Más bien, son la única manera en que un gran número de humanos pueden cooperar de forma efectiva.

The discovery of an effective treatment for scurvy greatly contributed to British control of the world's oceans and its ability to send armies to the other side of the world.

We believe in a particular order not because it is objectively true, but because believing in it enables us to cooperate effectively and forge a better society. Imagined orders are not evil conspiracies or useless mirages. Rather, they are the only way large numbers of humans can cooperate effectivelyy.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Do not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done." —James J. Ling

Intention combined with detachment leads to life-centered, present-moment awareness. And when action is performed in present-moment awareness, it is most effective.