Quotes About Efficiency

6. Use the ABCDE Method continually: Before you begin work on a list of tasks, take a few moments to organize them by value and priority so you can be sure of working on your most important activities.

7. Focus on key result areas: Identify those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long.

8. Apply the Law of Three: Identify the three things you do in your work that account for 90 percent of your contribution, and focus on getting them done before anything else. You will then have more time for your family and personal life.

9. Prepare thoroughly before you begin: Have everything you need at hand before you start. Assemble all the papers, information, tools, work materials, and numbers you might require so that you can get started and keep going.

Practica la «regla del setenta por ciento». Si alguien más puede hacer el trabajo un setenta por ciento tan bien como tú, delega la tarea a esa persona.

11. Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done. Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.

13. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work as if you had to get your major task completed before you left.

Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are much happier as a result.

16. Technology is a wonderful servant: Use your technological tools to confront yourself with what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important.

17. Focus your attention: Stop the interruptions and distractions that interfere with completing your most important tasks.

19. Create large chunks of time: Organize your days around large blocks of time so you can concentrate for extended periods on your most important tasks.

20. Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks. Become known as a person who does things quickly and well.

21. Single handle every task: Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task, and then work without stopping until the job is 100 percent complete. This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity.

Una de las reglas más importantes de la eficacia personal es la del 10/90. Dice que el primer 10 por ciento del tiempo que ocupa planificando y organizando su trabajo, antes de empezar, le va a permitir ahorrar hasta el 90 por ciento del tiempo que ocupará en hacer el trabajo una vez que lo ha empezado.

Resiste la tentación de gastar tiempo leyendo cosas que no son de valor inmediato o de relevancia para tu vida y trabajo.

Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete. In

Debes decirte a ti mismo: «Mi vida es preciosa e importante, y valoro cada minuto y hora de la misma. Voy a utilizar esas horas correctamente para poder lograr lo más que pueda, con el tiempo que tengo».

concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely

The key result areas of management are planning, organizing, staffing, delegating, supervising, measuring, and reporting.

Today, the best businesses position themselves as "partners" with their customers, vendors, and suppliers. Instead of spreading their business over a large number of other companies, they consolidate their business with a single supplier with whom they work closely to develop high-quality relationships that lead to better quality, greater efficiency, and eventually, lower prices and higher profits for both parties.

Most managers have never been trained in delegation, and anytime you adopt any new behavior, you will feel awkward at first. However, the more you practice delegation, the easier it becomes.

La expresión preparar mucho no existe.

Take Action on Your Plan Immediately. Take the first step—and then the second step and the third step. Get going. Get busy. Move quickly. Don't delay. Remember: Procrastination is not only the thief of time; it is the thief of life.

The main reason to develop time management skills is so that you can complete everything that is really important in your work and free up more and more time to do the things in your personal life that give you the greatest happiness and satisfaction.