Quotes About Efficiency

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? 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.

Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.

Put First Things First).

effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leverage activity there is.

If you were to do one thing in your professional work that you know would have enormously positive effects on the results, what would it be?

It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call.

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup...

Concentrate on one task at a time and devote your full attention to it. Trying to accomplish two things at once usually produced double mediocrity. Something well done was something done with dedication.

Since 1789 nearly 2000 men and women had served in the U.S. Senate. Those folks could be divided into two broad classes—workhorses and show horses. One got things done, the other took the credit or assigned blame. Of late, that dichotomy had been brought into sharp focus, as the Senate seemed overrun by show horses.

Time Warrior is much more than tips and tricks.

Keep your life creative and simple: what needs to be done now in these three minutes? That's all you ever need to ask, and you'll never have anything like procrastination bother you again.

A carefully planned meeting can take a third of the time that an unplanned free-for-all takes.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. —Peter Drucker

Simplify. Focus on results. You will always get what you focus on. If you merely focus on activities, that's what you'll get...a whole lot of activities. But if you focus on results, that's what you'll get. A whole lot of results.

The simpler you keep it, the stronger it gets.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." —Charles Mingus, legendary jazz musician

do everything right on the spot—don't put anything unnecessarily into your future

Los mejores planes suelen ser los más sencillos

The problem is, the rewards and the costs of adding more things to the Home page aren't shared equally. The section that's being promoted gets a huge gain in traffic, while the overall loss in effectiveness of the Home page as it gets more cluttered is shared by all sections.

every question mark adds to our cognitive workload, distracting our attention from the task at hand.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.1

What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.

There's a good usability principle right there: If something requires a large investment of time—or looks like it will—it's less likely to be used.