Quotes About Efficiency

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained like soldiers. Do what you're told. Don't ask why.

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.

Often imitated, the Speck press order survives today as the best way for a trial judge to manage a celebrated case.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Just because you are doing a lot more doesn't mean you are getting a lot done. Don't confuse movement with progress!

The secret of writing a good e-mail is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to keep the two as close together as possible with effective message in between. Good e-mail writing is always 1% inspiration, and 99% elimination.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency." -R. Daneel Olivaw

Knowledge applied is productivity.

Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.