Quotes About Efficiency

Full-body workouts are great for someone who can only train a few times per week, as missing one day will be less detrimental.

A lot of people would question, 'is twenty-five minutes or thirty minutes a day really enough to have a good physique?' But that's how I live my life: I do short and intense workouts so that I can enjoy my day and be with my family and not be in the gym for hours.

There's a tendency, guys get really excited and go through practice, and they want to stay for an extra hour after and do these workouts. What you should be doing is getting in the cold tub or getting your corrective exercises in with your strength coach, little things like that which can help you in the long run.

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race.

If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

I like to have a simple workplace.

Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

I am a person who works to deadlines.

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

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

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

But the shortest works are always the best.