Quotes About Productivity

Your mind will keep working on anything that's still in that undecided state.

Minute-to-minute and day-to-day you don't have time to think. You need to have already thought.

Projects do not need to be listed in any particular order, whether by size or by priority. They just need to be on a master list

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

If your head is your only system for placeholding, you will experience an attempted multitasking internally, which is psychologically impossible and the source of much stress for many people.

you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust.

Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year.

The goal for managing horizontally and vertically is the same: to get things off your mind and get things done. Appropriate action management lets you feel comfortable and in control as you move through your broad spectrum of work and life, while appropriate project focusing gets you clear about and on track with the specifics needed.

Three things go on your calendar: • time-specific actions; • day-specific actions; and • day-specific information.

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

What you've probably discovered, at least at some level, is that a calendar, though important, can really effectively manage only a small portion of what you need to organize. And daily to-do lists and simplified priority coding have proven inadequate to deal with the volume and variable nature of the average professional's workload.

The Five Initiatives 1.?Growth (via customer service, globalization, and technology) 2.?Productivity (went hand-in-hand with growth) 3.?Cash (improve working capital and have high-quality earnings) 4.?People (keep the best talent, organized the right way and motivated) 5.?Organizational enablers (including Six Sigma, Honeywell Operating System, and Functional Transformation)

more leaders equals more bureaucracy. Leaders don't just lead—they create work for other people, in the form of meetings, sign-offs, projects, procedures, priorities, and so on, especially if they're good leaders. Others in the organization then spend more of their time responding to these leaders and less time leading or managing their own team members. Each leader has their own staff—adding yet more cost and complexity to the organization.

Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

El 30 % del tiempo de las gerencias se pierde por mal manejo de conflictos (Thomas y Schmidt, 1976).

William Shakespeare

Come, we burn daylight, ho!

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

Blake: 'Think in the morning; act in the noon; eat in the evening; sleep in the night.

Dormía, corrientemente, una hora más por la mañana; me llamaban a las ocho en vez de las siete, y, si era posible, echaba una siesta de una hora después de almorzar. Esto me permitía trabajar continuamente hasta la una o las dos de la noche sin sentirme fatigado.

Let No One Fall Idle  

Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser. It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning. Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.