Quotes About Efficiency

Noneditable data should never be displayed in a control that looks editable or operable. Checkboxes, radio buttons, menus, sliders, and the like should never be used for noneditable data because they look operable. Even if they are inactive (grayed), they look like they can somehow be made active, and users will waste time trying to do so.

Usability testing is useful, necessary, and inefficient.

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will.

At the end of the day, your job is to minimize output, and maximize outcome and impact.

Globo.com is good at it. That's not because the company is faster than everyone else — sure, it's fast, but it's not that fast. It's because it's smart about doing less.

I had to work hard to figure out the least I could build to make people happy.

meeting" is often the euphemism we use for unproductive collaboration.

Minimize output, and maximize outcome and impact.

Focusing on specific target outcomes is the secret to prioritizing development work.

Remember, our goal is to minimize the amount we build (our output) and maximize the benefit we get from doing it (the outcomes and impact).

This is a workshop, not in a meeting. Meeting is the word that has become a euphemism for unproductive collaboration.

When employers designate certain jobs "professional" and insist that employees have professional training – not just the technical skills that seem sufficient to do the work – they must have more in mind than efficiency. Hierarchical organizations need professionals, because through professionals those at the top control the political content of what is produced, and because professionals contribute to the bosses' control of the workforce itself.

My job is to Ã¢â'¬Â¦ do my job. Lead, for God's sake. Keep my nose out of places where the machine is working, and stick it in deep where it isn't.

the faster a society moves, the more it spreads out and the more time it must spend moving.

today engineers acknowledge that building

Empty away your many thoughts to make room for more needed material instead of thoughts that we will never use. Einstein

What you have learned is that the capacity of the plant is equal to the capacity of its bottlenecks," says Jonah.

utilizing" a resource means making use of the resource in a way that moves the system toward the goal. "Activating" a resource is like pressing the ON switch of a machine; it runs whether or not there is any benefit to be derived from the work it's doing.

Since the strength of the chain is determined by the weakest link, then the first step to improve an organization must be to identify the weakest link.

The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it's focused on increasing throughput.

Putting it precisely, activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous.

For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager.