Quotes About Efficiency

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No management success can compensate for failure in leadership. But leadership is hard because we're often caught in a management paradigm.

many of us find that increasing our speed only makes things worse.

Organize and execute around priorities.

But Lilienthal took several weeks to create a high Emotional Bank Account. He had these people get to know each other—their interests, their hopes, their goals, their concerns, their backgrounds, their frames of reference, their paradigms. He facilitated the kind of human interaction that creates a great bonding between people, and he was heavily criticized for taking the time to do it because it wasn't "efficient." But

Or even Winston Churchill, who took naps throughout the Second World War, thereby giving himself "two mornings" every day (Sharpen the Saw).

Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish?

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of

I'm convinced that too often parents are also trapped in the management paradigm, thinking of control, efficiency, and rules instead of direction, purpose, and family feeling. And leadership is even more lacking in our personal lives. We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.

Si uno quiere tener más libertad, más margen en el trabajo, debe ser un empleado más responsable, más útil, más colaborador.

Stewardship delegation is focused on results instead of methods.

SCHEDULING. Now you can look at the week ahead with your goals in mind and schedule time to achieve them.

least some of these goals should reflect Quadrant II activities. Ideally, these weekly goals would be tied to the longer-term goals you have identified in conjunction with your personal mission statement. But even if you haven't written your mission

Again, you simply can't think efficiency with people. You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things. I've tried to be "efficient" with a disagreeing or disagreeable person and it simply doesn't work. I've tried to give ten minutes of "quality time" to a child or an employee to solve a problem, only to discover such "efficiency" creates new problems and seldom resolves the deepest concern.

We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

I'm convinced that too often parents are also trapped in the management paradigm, thinking of control, efficiency, and rules instead of direction, purpose, and family feeling.

PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL MANAGEMENT Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. GOETHE

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

you simply can't think efficiency with people. You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

But as the story shows, true effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset or capacity to produce (the goose).

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. GOETHE

When a boss becomes the first assistant to each of his subordinates, he can greatly increase his span of control.

In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

But is there a chance that efficiency is not the answer? Is getting more things done in less time going to make a difference