Quotes About Efficiency

How to create competition on results throughout the system, and the kinds of information that need to be measured, analyzed, and disseminated, appear as recurring themes throughout this book.

Competition on value must revolve around results. The results that matter are patient outcomes per unit of cost at the medical condition level.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Tests that take too long to run end up not being run.

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

Only Robinson Crusoe got it all done by Friday!

Those randomized to even just thirty seconds a day of a cold-water blast ended up taking off fewer sick days from work.3484 Foods

During my bachelor days, I would regularly order Chinese food for delivery—usually broccoli and garlic sauce (hold the white rice). Then I'd throw brown rice or quinoa along with dried lentils into my rice cooker and steam or microwave a pound of greens. By the time the delivery arrived, everything was ready and I would just mix it all together and have more than enough for leftovers.

In smoothie form, you can drink fruits and vegetables at about two cups a minute—ten times faster than it might take to eat fruits and vegetables in solid form.

Kiwi is one of the fruits I've prescribed to my patients with insomnia (two an hour before bedtime appears to significantly improve sleep onset, duration, and efficiency)

At rest, we burn about one calorie a minute, which is comparable to the heat produced by a seventy-five-watt light bulb.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Put a little bit more in, get so much more out".

human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.

We fix things. Do you understand that? We don't analyze things. We don't discuss things. We don't wring our hands and cry about things. We fix them! If somebody wants to be analyzed they can see a shrink. When they come to the Department of Orthopedics at the Mayo Clinic they want only one thing: they want to be fixed. "Now get the hell out of here and go fix things. And I better not get any more reports of touchy-wouchy, hand-holding sessions in this department.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

What gets measured, gets managed." If we measure the wrong things, we will not achieve our goals.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Typical categories include the 6 Ms: manpower (personnel), machines, materials, methods, measurements, and Mother Nature (or environment)

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

On 25 June a bulldozer, known as the Yellow Monster, arrived to help us improve the track systems as we advanced; it probably did the work in a day that 100 men with picks and shovels might do in a week. At all events, it saved us a great deal of hard work.

If she [Mrs. Homemaker] didn't know how much she needed convenience, it was up to inventors like Clausi to show her the way.

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

Take time. Look at it as a 'journey of discovery.' The more time you invest in preparing, the easier it is to complete your journey. A Chinese proverb says, "Wait long and strike fast.