Quotes About Efficiency

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.

With a little leadership, you'd get it in here very quickly, and it could be put to use on the inner cities and lots of other things, and it would be beautiful.

Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.

The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.

If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.