Quotes About Efficiency

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

Employees producing mediocre returns for owners should expect their pay to reflect this shortfall

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

My personal pride must not be allowed to stand in the way of my duty to the country. If I am only half efficient, I should turn the office over to the vice president. If it is going to take much time for me to recover my health and strength, the country cannot afford to wait for me.

Doing things is not the same as getting things done.

There are worse offenses than sending large spreadsheets as PDFs, but offhand I can't come up with any.

I love running. I'm not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.

Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.

you can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager. Remote work is very likely the least of your problems.

Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch.

Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done.

Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is already home because she figured out a faster way to get things done.

Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

Don't throw good time after bad work.

The longer something takes, the less likely it is that you're going to finish it.

you'd be amazed how much quality collective thought can be captured using two simple tools: a voice connection and a shared screen.

Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be. We're not suggesting you put shit work out there. You need to be able to be proud of it, even if it's only "okay." But attempting to be indiscriminately great at everything is a foolish waste of energy.

There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

We don't throw more people at problems, we chop problems down until they can be carried across the finish line by teams of three

An owner unknowingly scattering people's attention is a common cause of the question "Why's everyone working so much but nothing's getting done?

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF.

The best designers and the best programmers aren't the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with Photoshop or their environment of choice, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn't matter. That's where the real gains are made.

Chaos should not be the natural state at work.

Management scholar Peter Drucker nailed it decades ago when he said "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.