Quotes About Effectiveness

Remember that culture changes the value of tools: for example, if you have a team of people who hate each other, they will make each other miserable no matter how many billions of dollars of communication technology they use. Alternatively if you have people who trust each other and have similar goals, they'll be effective with smoke signals and carrier pigeons. Wars have been won by tightly knit armies using candles and Morse code.

A good sign as a leader is when output is high and meetings are short.

The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. (James 5:16 NIV)

Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the memorial to determine whether or not we're being effective in dealing with it?

I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.

As a mom, you just don't have time, so you get straight to the point.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

It was an effective miracle.

More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much much more effectively than the people of good will.

Insults are only really effective, she said, when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

An inherent tension exists between brevity and effectiveness. Cut too much and you won't have enough checks to improve care. Leave too much in and the list becomes too long to use.

Good checklists, on the other hand, are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations.

Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here.

But is this really going to be effective and worthwhile over a forty-year span?

Panic is not an effective, long-term organizing strategy.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective. Political correctness is always obsessed with how right it is without thinking how effective it might be. I do relish transgression and I deeply and instinctively distrust conformity and orthodoxy.