Quotes About Efficiency

Instantly sixty little hands grabbed at sixty sandwiches, which were stuffed down sixty throats in under sixty seconds.

well-structured group can be smarter than any of its members.

One of the things I always tell the police and families is that while everything is possible, not all things are probable. You can't waste a lot of investigative effort on an extremely unlikely scenario; you have to stay with what makes sense.

If Americans are the most efficient workers on earth and work longer hours than almost any other advanced nation, why are we getting our clocks cleaned? Answer: While American workers are world-class, our elites are mentally challenged. So rhapsodic are they about the Global Economy they have forgotten their own country. Europeans, Japanese, Canadians and Chinese sell us so much more than they buy from us because they have rigged the rules of world trade.

Besides fixed assets, an industrial company needs to manage working capital efficiently.

In both designing and evaluating processes, these teams would pay particular attention to passing the "process baton." Processes should be designed to facilitate the exchange of the baton, the movement of responsibility from one person to another.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

If I've already figured out how the book ends, why bother to finish writing it? My writing isn't terribly efficient, because I often have to backtrack a bit when I change my mind, but I like the sense of discovery that comes from not knowing what happens next.

The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.

For the worker bee, life is given over to the grim satisfaction of striking a firm line through a task accomplished. On to the next, and the next. Check, check. Done and done. It explains—and solves—nothing to call this workaholism.

For example, many times by the end of a meeting, a group finally arrives at the discussion that matters most, but they are out of time to adequately address it. We need to anticipate the time needed to warm up a group to be ready for the important discussions, and then to provide a sufficient space for the conversation to occur.

Right! It turns out there are at least five ways procrastination can actually be useful in certain instances.

Switching from task to task is a large mental burden because you are essentially stopping and starting from zero numerous times throughout the day. It takes a lot of energy to switch from task to task, and there are usually a few wasted minutes just regaining your bearings and figuring out the status of the task you were working on. Of course, these kinds of interruptions only lead to achieving just a portion of what you can and want to.

it's possible that procrastinators are not inherently lazy or useless individuals; rather, they're simply faced with tasks which do not match their skill levels or personal motivations.

One of the biggest weapons you have against procrastination is its natural enemy: making tasks almost impossible to skip over in the present moment. We'll cover that in more detail later.

Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them.

we human beings are not capable of multitasking. None of us are.

sooner begun is sooner done

Being able to think about two disparate things at once, aside from being wonderfully efficient, was roughly akin to being able to sing harmony with yourself.

You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless.

Being able to think about two disparate things at once, aside from being wonderfully efficient, was roughly akin to being able to sing harmony with yourself. It turned into a favorite game of mine. After two days of practicing I was able to sing a trio. Soon I was doing the mental equivalent of palming cards and juggling knives.

There was also a great rectangular stone lying on its side near the pool. A few days earlier I would have recognized it as a greystone. Now I saw it as an efficient windbreak, something to put my back against as I slept.

You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature.

Meanwhile, the front door opened. It was something it was very good at. After all, it had been doing it for years. Did it with skill and grace, obviously taking great pride in its work, not even making a squeak. Probably