Quotes About Effectiveness

During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

In fact, one of the most remarkable qualities of cannabis is its safety as a medicine. With a lethal-to-effective-dose ratio of 40,000 to 1, cannabis is far safer than aspirin and most other legal medicines, which commonly have a lethal dose only ten times greater than their effective one.6

Of the thousands of medicaments in official use, few were truly effective: among these were quinine for malaria, opium as an analgesic, colchicum for gout, digitalis to stimulate the heart, amyl nitrate to dilate the arteries in angina and, introduced in 1896, the versatile aspirin.

Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.

a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.

A recurrent theme through many chapters is: Keep it simple. Whether it comes to visuals, stories, or technology, remember that often less is more.

The admonitions of those who seldom remonstrate are more effective than the commands of naggers.

it is singularly unpleasant—for you and for those at the receiving end. It is also counterproductive and therefore inefficient.

Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

Do it fast, simple, and right the first time (and did we mention fast?).

Actually, the data reveals that checking in with your team members once a month is literally worse than useless. While team leaders who check in once a week see, on average, a 13 percent increase in team engagement, those who check in only once a month see a 5 percent decrease in engagement.

Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful.

To keep track of your effectiveness at this, every three months you may want to take a moment to write down your answer to this question: what percentage of your day do you experience a feeling of self-efficacy, that optimistic, positive, challenged-yet-confident, authentic feeling? Phrased more simply, what percentage of your day do you spend doing those things you really like to do?

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.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.