Quotes about Efficiency

Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter.

The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter.

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out

The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities—what we do with, and how we manage our time.

It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.

Your crises and problems would shrink to manageable proportions because you would be thinking ahead, working on the roots, doing the preventive things that keep situations from developing into crises in the first place. In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No

But is there a chance that efficiency is not the answer? Is getting more things done in less time going to make a difference—or will it just increase the pace at which I react to the people and circumstances that seem to control my life? Could there be something I need to see in a deeper, more fundamental way—some paradigm within myself that affects the way I see my time, my life, and my own nature?