Quotes About Efficiency

Calendar time is easier to feel than number counts.

Our Rider has a problem focus when he needs a solution focus. If you are a manager, ask yourself: "What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

What's working, and how can we do more of it?

We are fighting a war on load times.

process mattered more than analysis—by a factor of six.

increase an employee's productivity by one to two minutes a day, you've paid back the cost of wireless.

Peter Bregman, a productivity guru and blogger for the Harvard Business Review, recommends a simple trick for dodging this fate. He advises us to set a timer that goes off once every hour, and when it beeps, we should ask ourselves, "Am I doing what I most need to be doing right now?

What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

When you use analogies—when you find someone who has solved your problem—you can take your pick from the world's buffet of solutions. But when you don't bother to look, you've got to cook up the answer yourself. Every time. That may be possible, but it's not wise, and it certainly ain't speedy. DUNBAR

What's working, and how can we do more of it?" Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: "What's broken, and how do we fix it?

Atlas Shrugged also brought into focus the many inefficiencies of the unionized labour system. I had a union job on the pipeline—which was exactly why I had so much time to read. But there were times in Alaska when I saw a simple task being performed by three people because the union required one guy to drive a machine, a different guy to flip a switch, and a third guy to make sure the machine didn't run out of gas.

He never wasted time, Ram, especially on things he believed he couldn't change.

The ultimate cost reduction is eliminating atoms entirely and dealing only in bits.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

Leadership is about doing the right things; management is about doing those things in the right way.

Time, used correctly, is among your most potent assets.

Multiplexing is the process of sending multiple data streams simultaneously over a single channel. The data is then "demultiplexed" once it's crossed the channel.

Bullets is okay. Bullets is quick.

Clinical trials have proven that projectile vomiting is up to FOUR times more efficient than ordinary vomiting. You don't even have to run to the bathroom! With practice, and careful placement of your chair within thirty feet--and line of sight--of your bathroom, you can project your lunch from the comfort of your armchair.

Because if something is fun, more of it gets done!" -Luigi Lemoncello

In other words, speed, innovation, and global focus happen only when lots of delegated authority sits alongside lots of centralized authority.

Scrum is a lightweight framework designed to help small, close-knit teams of people develop complex products.

Another way that the product owner maximizes the value realized from the team's efforts is to make sure the team fully understands the requirements. If the team fully understands the requirements,

While a team's deliverable is the product, a scrum master's deliverable is a high-performing, self-organizing team.