Quotes About Effectiveness

The goal isn't innovation. The goal is effectiveness. We strive for innovation because we want to be effective.

If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

I know every arrow must count, and they do. In the eerie light,

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

Part of how we decide how we allocate our media is we have fairly sophisticated ways of measuring our return on marketing spend, which helps us best analyze the most effective way and medium in which to spend our marketing dollars.

I've learned from numerous sources that e-mail marketing is still far more effective in driving book sales than social media. That's why we all get those e-mail blasts from Amazon every morning.

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

conocimientos aplicados de manera efectiva y persistente.

The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner, and not doing enough things in an efficient manner.

A man may become a walking encyclopaedia of knowledge without possessing any power of value. This knowledge becomes power only to the extent that it is organized, classified and put into action.

Have you noticed that the most effective worker is generally the busiest?

Corporations are in love with the idea of the strategic plan. They need to pay to figure out where they are going. Yet there is no evidence that strategic planning works—we even seem to have evidence against it. A management scholar, William Starbuck, has published a few papers debunking the effectiveness of planning—it makes the corporation option-blind, as it gets locked into a non-opportunistic course of action.

They love precision at the expense of applicability.

I discovered that it is much more effective to act like a nice guy and be "reasonable

Aut tace aut loquere meliora silencio: only when the words outperform silence

the more interesting their conversation, the more cultured they are, the more they will be trapped into thinking that they are effective at what they are doing in real business (something psychologists call the halo effect, the mistake of thinking that skills in, say, skiing translate unfailingly into skills in managing a pottery workshop or a bank department, or that a good chess player would be a good strategist in real life)

Less is more and usually more effective.

Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession. Less is more and usually more effective.

Mientras mejor sepamos quiénes somos, más grande será nuestra efectividad y facilidad para hablar, y menores serán nuestros intentos por ser quien no somos. Esto

there is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness.

Productivity is the efficiency with which we convert inputs into outputs. In other words, how good