Quotes About Prioritization

Failure to hold one another accountable creates an environment where the fifth dysfunction can thrive. Inattention to results occurs when team members put their individual needs (such as ego, career development, or recognition) or even the needs of their divisions above the collective goals of the team.

If everything is important, nothing is

The key to managing this challenge, of course, is to identify a reasonable number of issues that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of your organization, and then spend most of your time thinking about, talking about, and working on those issues.

What clients want more than anything is to know that we're more interested in helping them than we are in maintaining our revenue source. And

We have more money, better technology, and more talented and experienced executives than our competitors, and yet we are behind. What we lack is teamwork, and I can promise you all that I have no greater priority as CEO than making you, I mean, us, more effective as a group.

No amount of intellectual prowess or personal charisma can make up for an inability to identify a few simple things and stick to them over time.

As strongly as we feel about our own employees and as wonderful as that is for them, it simply cannot come at the expense of the loyalty and commitment we have to the group of people sitting here today.

See, management is an everyday thing. Strategy and financial reporting and planning are not.

It may be that a man has only a given power of decision, and if he uses it all up, making vital choices every day in his studio, he has none left for everyday life.

having too many ideas is not always a good thing.

Choosing to please [God] more than anyone else guarantees that occasionally you will make other people unhappy, including family and friends.

People commonly use the word 'procrastination' to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.

Have less; do less; say no.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things.

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you're not saying 'no' to yourself.

This morning, my son asked me for money to buy a sheep. Should I help him, do you think?" "Since it clearly isn't a matter of urgency, wait another week before giving him your answer." "But I have the means to help him now. What difference will a week make?" "A very great difference indeed. Experience has taught me that people only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been un-certain as to whether or not they'll get it.

one must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants

Each session do as few or as many exercises as you wish but do not work equally hard on every one of them. For example, on Monday do a lot of sets of the bent press, on Tuesday skip the bent press or take it easy and work hard on snatches, etc. Do not be overly pedantic about the order. Just do not do one pet feat at the expense of everything else all the time. Also, do not be afraid to make some workouts relatively easier than others.

I felt like I almost understood. What was important and what was not. What was worth the time and effort and what was just a bunch of bullshit. And the more I looked at Eddie looking back at me, the more it was starting to make sense. Not all of it, but a little. Just a little, and at this point, that was all I needed.

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.