Effectiveness Quotes

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Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?…True effectiveness requires balance.
Stephen R. Covey

To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments.
Brian Koslow

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
Marvin Bower

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say I. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say I. They don’t think I. They think we; they think team. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but we gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Peter Drucker

If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Stephen R. Covey

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.
Peter Drucker

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker

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

The Inside-Out approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen R. Covey

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
John C. Maxwell

The greatest personalities that ever existed have been those who united human beings and put them on the road toward cooperation and effectiveness and peace. Those whom the world has held highest have helped to unite and not sever interconnectedness. They have not been the destroyers of differences but the harmonizer of differences.
John Lovejoy Elliott

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world — that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
William Arthur Ward

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition.
Henry Mintzberg

What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.
Stephen R. Covey

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart