Quotes About Efficiency

Define the outcomes you want from your team and its members, and then look for each person's strength signs to figure out how each person can reach those outcomes most efficiently, most amazingly, most creatively, and most joyfully. The moment you realize you're in the outcomes business is the moment you turn each person's uniqueness from a bug into a feature.

In companies with over 150 employees, 82 percent of people work on teams, and 72 percent work on more than one team. Even in small companies, of fewer than twenty people, this finding

The solution is as elegant as it is efficient: Define the right outcomes and then let each person find his own route toward those outcomes.

You will have your own examples of a work environment that seems to be firing on all cylinders. It will be a place where performance levels are consistently high, where turnover levels are low, and where a growing number of loyal customers join the fold every day.

The CorpSeCorps always substituted rumour for action, if action would cost them anything. They believed in the bottom line.

She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.

Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks—in other words, for all their frantic activity, they're actually wasting time. And

Over 100 years of research into productivity has shown that, after about forty hours a week, when we work longer, we make more mistakes – and the extra time goes to cleaning them up, the mess we made. 'We see it here in England and in the

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.