Quotes About Productivity

Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.

That's why a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task and makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball.

Do one thing at a time

Try creating an interruption-free zone during the day—turn off your e-mail, phone, IM program, or BlackBerry—and see whether you get more done.

larks report being most alert around noon and feel most productive at work a few hours before they eat lunch. They don't need an alarm clock, because they invariably get up before the alarm rings—often before 6:00 a.m. Larks cheerfully report their favorite mealtime as breakfast and generally consume much less coffee than non-larks. Getting increasingly drowsy in the early evening, most larks go to bed (or want to go to bed) around 9:00 p.m.

The brain cannot multitask

Google takes to heart the power of exploration. For 20 percent of their time, employees may go where their mind asks them to go. The proof is in the bottom line: Fully 50 percent of new products, including Gmail and Google News, came from "20 percent time.

Essentially, exercise improves a whole host of abilities prized in the classroom and at work.

Control isn't the only factor in productivity. Employees on an assembly line, doing the same tired thing day after day, certainly can feel in control of their work processes. But the brain-numbing tedium can become a source of stress.

There's no such thing as a firewall between personal issues and work productivity.

We were not sitting in a classroom for eight hours at a stretch. We were not sitting in a cubicle for eight hours at a stretch. If we sat around the Serengeti for eight hours—

Twenty percent of the workforce is already at suboptimal productivity in the current nine-to-five model.

Hochrangige Manager, sagen sie, arbeiten ohne E-Mail häufig effizienter, denn so sind sie vor den ständigen Anfragen ihrer Untergebenen abgeschirmt.

I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

When the zone calls, you must listen. You never know how long being in the zone lasts. It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.

Faithfulness is only half the equation. God expects fruitfulness as well.

The more you get done now, the less you'd have to do later!

"Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel"

It is best to call it the 3 2 2 Regimen. It is a 7 step morning routine that is grouped into 3 sets: 3 - Reflect, Read, and Write 2 - Plan and Prepare 2 - Exercise and Eat

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired