Quotes About Productivity

You don't need to worry about defining the roles in a way that you will live with for the rest of your life—just consider the week and write down the areas you see yourself spending time in during the next seven days.

Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management. It deals with things that are not urgent, but are important. It deals with things like building relationships, writing a personal mission statement, long-range planning, exercising, preventive maintenance, preparation—all those things we know we need to do, but somehow seldom get around to doing, because they aren't urgent.

SCHEDULING. Now you can look at the week ahead with your goals in mind and schedule time to achieve them.

So the place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our Circle of Influence, our own character. As we become independent—proactive, centered in correct principles, value driven and able to organize and execute around the priorities in our life with integrity—we then can choose to become interdependent—capable of building rich, enduring, highly productive relationships with other people.

least some of these goals should reflect Quadrant II activities. Ideally, these weekly goals would be tied to the longer-term goals you have identified in conjunction with your personal mission statement. But even if you haven't written your mission

Again, you simply can't think efficiency with people. You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things. I've tried to be "efficient" with a disagreeing or disagreeable person and it simply doesn't work. I've tried to give ten minutes of "quality time" to a child or an employee to solve a problem, only to discover such "efficiency" creates new problems and seldom resolves the deepest concern.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

Developing such a Win/Win performance agreement is the central activity of management.

you simply can't think efficiency with people. You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players.

In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

But is there a chance that efficiency is not the answer? Is getting more things done in less time going to make a difference

learned to focus on truly important things, not just urgent things.

Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.

Put First Things First).

effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leverage activity there is.

I have seen the consequences of attempting to shortcut this natural process of growth often in the business world, where executives attempt to "buy" a new culture of improved productivity, quality, morale, and customer service with strong speeches, smile training, and external interventions, or through

The Seven Habits are habits of effectiveness.

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute. We are the instruments of our own performance, and to be effective, we need to recognize the importance of taking time regularly to sharpen the saw in all four ways.

If you were to do one thing in your professional work that you know would have enormously positive effects on the results, what would it be?

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call.

Deja que la refinación y la mejora de tu propia vida te mantenga tan ocupado que tengas poco tiempo para criticar a otros. H. JACKSON BROWN, JR., ESCRITOR

debating with the devil had never been productive for anyone.

Concentrate on one task at a time and devote your full attention to it. Trying to accomplish two things at once usually produced double mediocrity. Something well done was something done with dedication.