Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
(n.) The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.
It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.
The key to productive life is a complete care for the body, soul, spirit and mental well being.
I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
Politics is an enemy of productivity
The only way to live a life without regret is to make sure each unit of time that passes is being converted into product
Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment...
Refuse to allow a weakness or a lack of ability in any area to hold you back. Everything is learnable. And what others have learned, you can learn as well.
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth b...
List down all your distractions, all your addictions, all your hang-ups, and all your toxic relationships. Then cut them out of your life so you can finally move forward.
The only doors that open are the ones you knock on.
The accumulation of non-obvious, ineffective, or misapplied actions leads to low productivity.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus
With a DO-CONFIRM checklist, he said, team members perform their jobs from memory and experience, often separately. But then they stop. They pause to run the checklist and confirm that everything that...
A new week means new goals. New goals means new success. No goals mean no success and no success means a wasted week.
I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.