Quotes About Effectiveness

Put no more than three messages on a lemonade stand. You have to describe what your product is, why it's the best, and how much it is. Don't be drawing turtles and flowers and footballs all over it, distracting people. Keep it clean.

quality is most of all a function of its usefulness. The Corporate Quality Program Real quality has little to do with defects

A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality.

First, be effective. Then be efficient.

I have always believed that politics is first and foremost about ideas; Without a powerful commitment to goals and values, governments are rudderless and ineffective, however large their majorities.

What matters is what works.

The Capacity of Your Team Will Determine the Potential Impact of Your Ministry

It's not how much time we invest into our work that determines our productivity but rather the value we produce during the hours we work.

Commuting can take a huge toll on people's productivity draining their energy during the early-morning hours, when they might otherwise be most effective. Organizations serve their employees and themselves by allowing employees to commute in off-hours or work from home.

A deterrent must be known to exist, and to work.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

a leader's first priority is to create an environment where others can do these things and that cannot happen if they are not having effective meetings.

Team Effectiveness Exercise. This exercise requires team members to identify the single most important contribution that each of their peers makes to the team, as well as the one area that they must either improve upon or eliminate for the good of the team.

a client is going to remember that one great idea a consultant proposes far more than the not-so-great ones. And

To make our meetings more effective, we need to have multiple types of meetings, and clearly distinguish between the various purposes, formats, and timing of those meetings.

He wrote a simple question on a piece of paper: WHAT IS THE ONE THING I DO THAT REALLY MATTERS TO THE FIRM?

We have more money, better technology, and more talented and experienced executives than our competitors, and yet we are behind. What we lack is teamwork, and I can promise you all that I have no greater priority as CEO than making you, I mean, us, more effective as a group.

Once a leadership team has become cohesive and worked to establish clarity and alignment around the answers to the six critical questions, then, and only then, can they effectively move on to the next step: communicating those answers. Or better yet, overcommunicating those answers—over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

It does not matter if you can do 1,000 punches if none of them can knock out your little sister.

Art is most effective when concealed.

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

Lots of people have been making lists for years but have never found the procedure to be particularly effective.

What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. —Peter F. Drucker