Quotes About Efficiency

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

I told them I wanted them to prepare by creating a list of discussion points to bring to our meetings. I wanted them to think about what they or the other managers in this room could do to improve the efficiency, productivity, customer service, cash flow, margin of errors, corporate culture, rate of employee turnover, employee morale, and, most important, the company's profitability.

There are widely cited accounts of famous but unnamed Soviet boot and nail factories. The boot factories produced only size-7-left boots but never missed a production quota; the nail factories made a large number of small nails in response to numerical targets but switched skillfully to a small number of very large nails when targets were set by weight.

So the best project management policies are those that promote open flow of information up and down the project hierarchy.

He knew that some believed that standardization would impede innovation; that was one of the arguments people who resisted standardization were most inclined to make. But Barton was not so sure of that.

The money spent by one campus ministry to cover the costs of their Central American mission trip to repaint an orphanage would have been sufficient to hire two local painters and two new full-time teachers and purchase new uniforms for every student in the school.

We all know that the way to get something done is to give it to a busy person.

ane hunder pundis will do mair presently to the said work nor ane thousand pundis will do quhen it is fallin downe

needed to be done in the next day and a half.

the brass and the bean counters look at the bottom line.

You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

The squashy earth-colored sofas, the tall cups of American froth, the wholesome young people working with quiet efficiency

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

The effective delegator Does not feel insecure Has confidence in subordinates Uses schedules when planning Knows the value of delegating Ensures staff are trained

It is a curious fact that the delicate acoustic arrangements of a music hall can be impaired by the music of inefficient, discordant orchestras, and for this reason poor musical performances have been forbidden in some places. If a poor performance could affect adversely the acoustics of a hall, would not an able performance tend to improve them?

Bicycles are considered sporting equipment, rather than serious tools for efficient transportation.

Good bosses focus their attention, and their people's efforts, on the small number of things that matter most. The best bosses learn when they can and should ignore the least important demands from others. But some demands can't be avoided even though they have little, if any, impact on people or performance. In such cases, it might be wise to do a quick and crummy job so you can 'check the box' and quickly move on to more crucial chores.

Ignorance, mediocrity, and mistakes run rampant when organizations fail to link the right people to the right information at the right time. This

smart talk trap."17 This a syndrome where companies hire, reward, and promote people for sounding smart rather than making sure that smart things are done.

They borrowed a motto from the U.S. Army: "Amateurs discuss strategy; professionals discuss logistics"—in other words, the nuances of getting things done.

If you can't bring yourself to encourage employees to lie down on the job, at least give them plenty of breaks. The ordinary fatigue most of us feel during the workday makes us grouchier—and dumber—as the hours go by.