Quotes About Effectiveness

Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.

Some of the wisest auditors say that there are only three internal control objectives: to gain assurance for reliability of financial reporting, compliance with laws and regulations, and efficiency and effectiveness of operations. That's it. What you and John are talking about are just different slides of what is called the 'coso Cube.

Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system. To do that, you need to know what matters to the achievement of the business objectives, whether it's projects, operations, strategy, compliance with laws and regulations, security, or whatever.

As Sensei W. Edwards Deming once observed, 'a bad system will beat a good person every time.

I've figured out that the trick to a long career in it Operations management is to get enough seniority to get good things done

Most people dont buy talent; they buy results.

Practicality is a great help when it comes to getting things achieved,

Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.

It is absolutely necessary to be effective in the digital space, though this effort alone will not spell outreach success.

Of what value after all is a power which one could never use, or at any rate did not know how to use?

La homeopatía equivale a disolver una aspirina en el océano Pacífico y recetarle quince gotas al paciente.

When I ask people how much time they spend not doing their job - time spent on 'work-about-work' or phone calls or e-mails - people regularly tell me 60, or even 90 percent. So if Asana could take that down closer to zero, we could potentially double the effectiveness of humanity.

The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, on the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold the person publicly all the time.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.