"While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people."
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"Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics."
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"So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows."
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"There have been times where, let's say on LGBT issues, when we were trying to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I got the Pentagon and Bob Gates, a Republican holdover from the [George W.] Bush administration, to authorize a study of how you might end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, headed up by Jeh Johnson, who at that time was a council to the Justice Department. And it was going to take a year to conduct that study, issue a report, and figure out how it might be implemented, what effect it would have on unit cohesion and military effectiveness."
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"The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity."
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"One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule."
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"Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it"
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"All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem."
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"An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined."
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"It's not the situation, but whether we react, or respond, to the situation that's important."
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"The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject."
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"Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness."
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"Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe."
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"Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered."
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"The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference."
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"Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go."
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"The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed."
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"The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
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"It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion."
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"The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual."
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