Quotes About Efficiency

Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their tasks around goals. Think effectiveness with people; efficiency with things.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.

The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities—what we do with, and how we manage our time.

In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.

the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.

True discipline means channeling our best hours into first-order objectives, and that means being a nonconformist in the best sense.

Your crises and problems would shrink to manageable proportions because you would be thinking ahead, working on the roots, doing the preventive things that keep situations from developing into crises in the first place. In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

Keep in mind that when you're working with your family, "slow" is "fast" and "fast" is

Your planning tool should be your servant, never your master.

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

It's a principle you can see validated in your own life when you burn the candle at both ends to get more golden eggs and wind up sick or exhausted, unable to produce any at all; or when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.

The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities

efectividad reside en el equilibrio, en lo que denomino el equilibrio P/CP. «P» es la producción de los resultados deseados, los huevos de oro. «CP» es la capacidad de producción, la aptitud o el medio que produce los huevos de oro.

If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary.

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Suppose you want your daughter to have a clean room—that's P, production, the golden egg. And suppose you want her to clean it—that's PC, production capability.

A menudo «lo bueno» es enemigo de «lo mejor».

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No

Effectiveness lies in the balance.