Quotes About Effectiveness

Spend 80 percent of your time on the most promising 20 percent of the potential leaders around you.

leaders who are effective are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives.

Effective leaders who reach their potential spend more time focusing on what they do well than on what they do wrong. To be successful, focus on your strengths and develop them. That's where you should pour your time, energy, and resources.

Many people fail to make a difference because they are so busy. They

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success. It's Not How Hard You Work; It's How Smart You Work

Nothing speaks like results.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively." —GERALD FORD

People who lack vision almost always lack passion. Incompetent leaders are ineffective and they often stay that way.

there are five nonnegotiable characteristics that every effective leader must have: a sense of calling, an ability to communicate, creativity in problem solving, generosity, and consistency.

Prioritize the things that yield high return. What's the key to being productive? Prioritizing. To be an effective leader, you must learn to not only get a lot done, but to get a lot of the right things done. That means understanding how to prioritize time, tasks, resources, and even people. Effective prioritizing begins with eliminating the things you shouldn't be doing.

The Pareto Principle 20 percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your production IF you spend your time, energy, money, and personnel on the top 20 percent of your priorities.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. –Milton Glaser

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

When you're so young, it's important to understand exactly what your role is. Not just look good - you have to be efficient and effective.

Leading from behind doesn't work.

With my size and length I can affect the game in a lot of ways.

Always when I play I want to play well and make a difference.

There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.

Yet surprisingly in this era of screen-based devices, paper tools are still enormously popular and effective, as the number of paper-based diaries and reminders indicates. The