Quotes About Effectiveness

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question. I have no words I can rely on because, much to my dismay, my tongue was designed long and flat and loose, and therefore, is a horribly ineffective tool for pushing food around

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

Saying yes to everyone is the same as saying yes to nothing. Each additional obligation chips away at your effectiveness at everything you try.

Multitasking doesn't save time —it wastes time.

Pareto points us in a very clear direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

Don't focus on being busy; focus on being productive. Allow what matters most to drive your day.

Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more

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Those milliseconds add up. Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

When you try to do too much at once, you can end up doing nothing well.

You have only so much time and energy, so when you spread yourself out, you end up spread thin. You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition: You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

The Focusing Question can direct you to your ONE Thing in the different areas of your life. Simply reframe the Focusing Question by inserting your area of focus. You can also include a time frame—such as "right now" or "this year"—to give your answer the appropriate level of immediacy, or "in five years" or "someday" to find a big-picture answer that points you at outcomes to aim for.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The problem with trying to do too much

the ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?

Willpower is so important that using it effectively should be a high priority. Unfortunately, since it's not on will-call, putting it to its best use requires you to manage it.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The

Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

Employees at three out of every five companies rated their organization weak at execution

You've no doubt heard the saying 'knowledge is power.' I disagree. Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

An engineer's skills are like the blade of a knife: you may spend tens of thousands of dollars to find engineers with the sharpest skills for your team, but if you "use" that knife for years without sharpening it, you will wind up with a dull knife that is inefficient, and in some cases useless.

Sentences that bring ideas and images into clearer focus by adding more useful details and explanation are generally more effective than those that are less clearly focused and that offer fewer details.