Quotes About Efficiency

people "shift the burden" of their problem to other solutions—well-intentioned, easy fixes which seem extremely efficient.

To empower people in an unaligned organization can be counterproductive.

idea becomes an "innovation" only when it can be replicated reliably on a meaningful scale at practical costs.

You can sit down and spend hours crafting some joke that you think is perfect, but a lot of the time, that's just a waste of time," Ruby explains.

An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used for grass-fed beef.

Your first step in decluttering them is to ask yourself "How do I want these horizontal surfaces to make my life easier?" (Rather than "What do I want to put here?")

I had always insisted on structured practices with a clear agenda that the players would receive ahead of time.

Law of economy: nothing is waste. Even the unreal. What a sublimity in the process.

Tu, in quanto prodotto della tua società socialista, sei abituato a enormi sprechi. Io, tuttavia, sono ancora per la libera impresa. 'Risparmiare è guadagnare...

En la vida real- pensaba Rick-, no hay campanillas mágicas como ésas para hacer que el enemigo desaparezxa sin el menor esfuerzo. una lástima.

Es como la fábrica totalmente automatizada que se repara a sí misma. ¿Sabe a lo que se refiere la palabra «retroalimentación»?

try to shorten the base paths in order to reach home plate faster and score. All you will have accomplished by that technique is to cheapen the value of a run.

Kafka, of course, would be in a unique position to appreciate the irony of submitting his short stories to this kind of high-efficiency critical machine, the literary equivalent of tearing the petals off and grinding them up and running the goo through a spectrometer to explain why a rose smells so pretty.

Blockchains don't solve settlement and compliance issues — they're only more efficient if they can bypass regulation. Libra could only be more efficient than existing systems as long as it could dodge regulation, and none of its competitors could.

10. Return calls unbelievably fast Stephanie Wethered, the pastor referred to earlier, does this. She tries to return calls within ten minutes. She says it's the most trust-creating thing she does; no one expects it, and it demonstrates how much she values the other person. 11.

Managers should be hassle absorbers, not hassle creators.

In the vast library of socialist theory, and in all of Marx's compendious works, there is not a chapter devoted to the creation of wealth—to what will cause human beings to work and innovate, or to what will make their efforts efficient. Socialism is strictly a plan of morally-sanctioned theft. It is about dividing up what others have created. Consequently, socialist economies create poverty instead of wealth.

Without slack there is no tactical agility in the business.

The two pillars of the Toyota production system are just-in-time and automation with a human touch, or autonomation.

Of course, speed is most useful if it is in the correct direction;

Reducing coordination and transaction costs is at the heart of Lean. It is waste elimination in its most potent form. It allows smaller batches to become efficient. It enables business agility. Reducing coordination and transaction costs is game changing.

you don't need the best people to produce world-class results.

lower tacit-knowledge depreciation when we have less work-in-progress, resulting in higher quality.

An interesting side effect of pull systems is that they limit work-in-progress (WIP) to some agreed-upon quantity