Quotes About Effectiveness

Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work.

If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

I just think things should work properly.

Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that's focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.

No doubt a leader or leaders can make that culture more effective or less effective, by the way that we behave. Most importantly, but also by what we say, what we stress, what we reward.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

The things you have to do to be effective - like forming a union at a fast food joint or a telemarketing company - aren't going to work unless you do things like solidarity strikes. Solidarity strikes are illegal. They've been illegal since the '40s, and they were made illegal because they work.

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.

The optimum committee has no members.

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just to satisfy a particular condition. What you want more than anything is to develop women in the organisation who will, when they get to the top, be fully capable of delivering and doing the job effectively.

The truth is that key influencers exist in all effective organizations, but a solid-line org chart won't tell you where they are.

I think I lead with empathy and connection to our people. I find that the most effective leadership style for me is to just talk and listen. It sounds simple, but it's so effective.

Output is more important than ideas.