"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy."
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"You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it."
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"Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people."
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"Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work."
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"Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential."
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"As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word."
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"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."
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"A place for everything, everything in its place."
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"And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support."
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"Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything.""
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"Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness."
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"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. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness."
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"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well."
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"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."
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"I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life."
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"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."
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"Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe."
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"We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind."
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"Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships."
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"We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient."
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