Quotes About Efficiency

When there are multiple solutions to a problem, choose the simplest one.

Pressed to identify useful financial innovations created during the past quarter-century, Paul A. Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman and recent chairman of President Obama's Economic Recovery Board, could single out only one: "The ATM.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.

You could use the 80/20 rule. Give 80 percent of your effort to the top 20 percent (most important) activities. Another way is to focus on exceptional opportunities that promise a huge return. It comes down to this: give your attention to the areas that bear fruit.

If you keep nonproductive people, the productive ones become frustrated and leave. If you remove the people who don't add value, then the whole team gets better. It's just like trimming trees: If you don't cut the deadwood, eventually the whole tree falls. But if you remove the deadwood, the tree becomes healthier, the healthy branches produce more, and there's room for productive new branches on the tree.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don't want to make mistakes.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

Don't settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people.

The key to working smarter is knowing the difference between motion and direction. In the final analysis, results are what matter; attendance and activity don't.

It will add to your effectiveness, subtract from your weaknesses, divide your workload, and multiply your impact.

Trying to get the right person in the right job can take a lot of time and energy. Let's face it. Isn't it easier for a leader to just put people where it is most convenient and get on with the work? Once again, this is an area where leaders' desire for action works against them.

people who are busy rowing seldom have time to rock the boat.

TODAY GIVE YOUR TIME ONLY TO THINGS THAT PASS THE REQUIREMENT, RETURN, REWARD TEST.

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-offs and its eager-beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager-beavers.

Success in your work will be greatly increased if the 3 R's (Requirements/ Return/Reward) are similar. In

Because I lacked the ability to prioritize correctly and bring focus to my leadership.

The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.

The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Parkinson's Law: If you have only one letter to write, it will take all day to do it. If you have twenty letters to write, you'll get them done in one day.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation of success.

However, as a leader, if you can add results to relationships and develop a team of people who like each other and get things done, you have created a powerful combination.

La concentración dividida siempre trabaja en forma negativa.

60 percent of all management problems are the result of faulty communications.