Quotes About Effectiveness

Caffeine does, in fact, shrink the appetite and discombobulate insect brains...The caffeinated spiders [in a certain study] spun a strangely cubist and utterly ineffective web, with oblique angles, openings big enough to let small birds through, and completely lacking symmetry or center. (The web was far more fanciful than the ones spun by spiders given cannabis or LSD.)

Toyota cree firmemente que son las rutinas organizacionales para la mejora y la adaptación, y no los objetivos cuantitativos/económico-financieros, las que definen la ruta hacia la ventaja competitiva y a la supervivencia organizacional a largo plazo.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

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.

The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it).

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

You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.

Before you begin work, always ask yourself, Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?

As you begin to see yourself and think about yourself as more competent and confident, your behavior becomes more focused and effective

The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.

utilizan su tiempo mucho mejor que la persona promedio.

Before you begin work, always ask yourself, "Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?

hacen correctamente las cosas adecuadas.

The good news is that the faster you move, the more energy you have. The faster you move, the more you get done and the more effective you feel. The faster you move, the more you learn. The faster you move, the more competent and capable you become at anything you try— be it homework, music, sports, or anything else you put your mind to. The faster you work and the more you get done, the higher will be your levels of self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride.

3. Apply the 80/ 20 Rule to everything: Twenty percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results. Always concentrate your efforts on that top 20 percent.

7. Focus on key result areas: Identify those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long.

8. Apply the Law of Three: Identify the three things you do in your work that account for 90 percent of your contribution, and focus on getting them done before anything else. You will then have more time for your family and personal life.

Una de las reglas más importantes de la eficacia personal es la del 10/90. Dice que el primer 10 por ciento del tiempo que ocupa planificando y organizando su trabajo, antes de empezar, le va a permitir ahorrar hasta el 90 por ciento del tiempo que ocupará en hacer el trabajo una vez que lo ha empezado.

Dicho con sencillez, a algunas personas las cosas les van mejor porque hacen las cosas de un modo diferente y hacen correctamente las cosas adecuadas. Sobre todo, utilizan su tiempo mucho mejor que la persona promedio.

As soon as he stops justifying, he becomes a more positive and effective person.

uno de los peores usos del tiempo es hacer muy bien algo que no había ninguna necesidad de hacer.

The Law of Forced Efficiency says, "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." Put another way, you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

rule, once again, is that every minute spent in planning and creating checklists will save you ten minutes in execution and getting the job done. This

What are your highest value activities? What can you, and only you do, that if done well, can make a real difference?