Quotes About Effectiveness

Playing on her femininity and making him feel uncomfortable seemed highly effective.

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

I think noogies can be effective if done at the right time and place.

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.

Effectiveness is best measured by results over time.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

Mind-boggling, isn't it? Centuries before the question of why mathematics was so effective in explaining nature was even asked, Galileo thought he already knew the answer! To him, mathematics was simply the language of the universe. To understand the universe, he argued, one must speak this language. God is indeed a mathematician.

nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work.

Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

The One Minute Manager

If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.