Quotes About Productivity

If it's constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you: Fuck that. And two more: Enough already.

In the long run, work is not more important than sleep.

If it's constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you: Fuck that.

pulling seven people away from their work for an hour is worth seven hours of lost productivity.

The ability to be alone with your thoughts is, in fact, one of the key advantages of working remotely. When you work on your own, far away from the buzzing swarm at headquarters, you can settle into your own productive zone. You can actually get work done—the same work that you couldn't get done at work! Yes

One of the secret benefits of hiring remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only, and fast. These words get in the way of healthy communication. They are red flags that introduce animosity, torpedo good discussions, and cause projects to be late.

Working more doesn't mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more.

People can't get work done at work anymore. That turns life into work's leftovers. The doggie bag. What's worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.

The ability to be alone with your thoughts is, in fact, one of the key advantages of working remotely.

So, coming into the office just means that people have to put on pants. There's no guarantee of productivity.

And between all those context switches and attempts at multitasking, you have to add buffer time. Time for your head to leave the last thing and get into the next thing. This is how you end up thinking "What did I actually do today?" when the clock turns to five and you supposedly spent eight hours at the office. You know you were there, but the hours had no weight, so they slipped away with nothing to show.

rearranging your daily patterns to find more time for work isn't the problem. Too much shit to do is the problem.

Just like work expands to fill the time available, work expands to fill the team available.

These half-baked, right-in-the-middle-of-something-else new ideas lead to half-finished, abandoned projects that litter the landscape and zap morale.

Long projects zap morale. The longer it takes to develop, the less likely it is to launch. Make the call, make progress, and get something out now—while you've got the motivation and momentum to do so.

The same thing is true with weekday nights. If work can claim hours after 5:00 p.m., then life should be able to claim hours before 5:00 p.m. Balance, remember. Give and take.

Machines can work 24/7, humans can't.

Following group chat at work is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. It's completely exhausting.

Working 40 hours a week is plenty. Plenty of time to do great work, plenty of time to be competitive, plenty of time to get the important stuff done.

If you can't fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not work longer hours.

What's worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great "work ethic" because they're always around, always available, always working. That's a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who's overworked.

Given that, you're only going to frustrate yourself and everyone else if you summon the brain trust too frequently for those Kodak moments. Because either it means giving up on the last great idea (the one that still requires follow-up) or it means further stuffing the backlog of great ideas. A stuffed backlog is a stale backlog.

Remember: Deadlines, not dreadlines.