Quotes About Efficiency

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sir.' The implication is obvious: If I have problems, I'm going to handle them. I'm going to take care of them, and I'm not going to complain. I took extreme ownership of my world. The way that worked was twofold. When I did need something, it was something significant, it was something real. And when I told the Commodore, 'Hey, boss, we need this right here,' I would get it almost instantaneously

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If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author of 31 books, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom

what a beautiful metaphor this is for not mistaking the husk—the outer accoutrements of productivity like busyness, or a full calendar, or a clever auto-responder—not mistaking those for the kernel, the core and substance of the actual work produced. And he then says, 'Those who work much, do not work hard.' I

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

the key to successful development performance is achieving a careful balance among what government can successfully accomplish, what the private market system can do, and what both can best do when working together.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

W. Edwards Deming wrote, "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing.

Poder derrotar a la competencia se basa en la calidad del producto. Diseñar métodos de producción a prueba de tontos, instrumentarlos con cuidado, vigilar cada proceso en forma minuciosa, y mejorar los métodos de manera continua.

Do less, to do more, to earn more.

It's possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That's what happens when you drive out slack.

Very successful companies have never struck me as particularly busy; in fact, they are, as a group, rather laid-back. Energy is evident in the workplace, but it's not the energy tinged with fear that comes from being slightly behind on everything.

Count on the best people outperforming the worst by about 10:1. • Count on the best performer being about 2.5 times better than the median performer. • Count on the half that are better-than-median performers outdoing the other half by more than 2:1.

While this [10 to 1] productivity differential among programmers is understandable, there is also a 10 to 1 difference in productivity among software organizations

The catalyst is important because the project is always in a state of flux. Someone who can help a project to jell is worth two people who just do work.

Management is hard, and not because there is so much work to do (an overworked manager is almost certainly doing work he/she shouldn't be doing). Management is hard because the skills are inherently difficult to master. Your mastery of them will affect your organization more than anything going on under you.

When managers are overworked, they're doing something other than management; the more they allow themselves to be overworked, the less real management gets done.

a manager who is 40 percent used up making operations happen is not viewed as 60 percent reclaimable expense. Rather, he/she is viewed as someone doing leadership 60 percent of the time. If there is an incentive to change this formula, it suggests looking for ways to decrease the time spent running operations to free up more capacity for leading the transformation.

So far, the results confirm the folklore: Programmers seem to be a bit more productive after they've done the estimate themselves, compared to cases in which the manager did it without even consulting them. When the two did the estimating together, the results tended to fall in between.