Quotes About Efficiency

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Near the end of his tenure as co-CEO of SAP, Jim Hagemann Snabe discovered that the German software giant had amassed more than fifty thousand key performance indicators (KPIs), covering every job across the company. Snabe was horrified. "We were trying to run the company by remote control," he recalls. "We had all this amazing talent, but had asked them to put their brains on ice.

We need to put human beings, not structures, processes, or methods, at the center of our organizations. Instead of a management model that seeks to maximize control for the sake of organizational efficiency, we need one that seeks to maximize contribution for the sake of impact.

Henry Ford once wondered querulously, "Why is it that whenever I ask for a pair of hands, a brain comes attached?

success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Not everything matters equally, and success isn't a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Achievers operate differently. They have an eye for the essential. They pause just long enough to decide what matters and then allow what matters to drive their day. Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn't in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.

Leaving some things undone is a necessary tradeoff for extraordinary results.

extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

The truth is that things don't matter equally and success is found in doing what matters most.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world." — Og Mandino

Productivity isn't about being a workhorse, keeping busy or burning the midnight oil... . It's more about priorities, planning, and fiercely protecting your time." —Margarita Tartakovsky

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

Multitasking is a scam.

the key to success isn't in all the things we do but in the handful of things we do well.

be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.

So the more things you do, the less successful you are at any one of them.

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

GOING SMALL If everyone has the same number of hours in a day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others? The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. They go small.

No matter how many to-dos you start with, you can always narrow it to one. Keep going. You can actually take 20 percent of the 20 percent of the 20 percent and continue until you get to the single most important thing!

people and problems can chew up your time and drain your energy.

In fact, you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Multitasking doesn't save time —it wastes time.