Quotes About Efficiency

Ideally, each study session should last about 45 minutes before you give yourself a 5- or 10-minute break.

Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast.

While working on The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci regularly took off from painting for several hours at a time and seemed to be daydreaming aimlessly. Urged by his patron, the prior of Santa Maria delle Grazie, to work more continuously, da Vinci is reported to have replied, immodestly but accurately, 'The greatest geniuses accomplish more when they work less.

It's not how much time we invest into our work that determines our productivity but rather the value we produce during the hours we work.

It's that human beings operate most productively in the same one-dimensional way computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time.

In a significant number of cases, people actually get worse at their jobs over time. "More

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

The Machine will reinvent the fundamental architecture of computers to enable a quantum leap in performance and efficiency, while lowering costs over the long term and improving security.

As some scientists believe, then a new intelligent life form will have been created. It will be able to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for no pay, easily doing the work that 2 to 3 humans did before. Think about what that situation will mean to an employer.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Where economic efficiency gives males a bargaining advantage on account of greater mobility of their human capital from a gendered division of labor, families do best by socializing a daughter to cultivate the femininity that will help her win her a good man and the docility that will help her keep him. Because human history has been agrarian for most of recorded time, these are the values—let's call it patriarchy—most familiar to humanity.

Täytyy pitää kiirettä, että ennättää elää, minulta on mennyt kovin paljon aikaa hukkaan!

People don't say "Work is money." They say "Time is money." We all instinctively understand this, but we also know deep down that there is something wrong with it.

Single-minded, determined, and intelligent organizational talent probably can create an effective army from any group of men.

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting.

The healthier an organization is, the more of its intelligence it is able to tap into and use. Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them. But the healthy ones tap into almost all of it.

Great organizations, unlike countries, are never run like a democracy.

Most organizations I've worked with have too many top priorities to achieve the level of focus they need to succeed.

The healthier an organization is, the more of its intelligence it is able to tap into and use.

Teams have to eliminate ambiguity and interpretation when it comes to success.

Weekly Tactical meeting should last between forty-five and ninety minutes, depending on its frequency, and should include a few critical elements, including the following:

As difficult as it is to build a cohesive team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical

During the Weekly Tactical, there are two overriding goals: resolution of issues and reinforcement of clarity. Obstacles need to be identified and removed, and everyone needs to be on the same page.

It is at once shocking and understandable that intelligent people cannot see the correlation between failing to take the time to get clarity, closure, and buy-in during a meeting, and the time required to clean up after themselves as a result.