Peter Drucker on confusing efficiency with effectiveness https://t.co/rEFOWSrjsU
Peter Drucker on confusing efficiency with effectiveness https://t.co/rEFOWSrjsU
Organizational theorist Kenichi Ohmae on the difference between being efficient and being effective:
“Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.”
“Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.”
James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com
Isaac Feldman added
Efficiency is doing things right, but effectiveness is doing the right things.
Rory Vaden • Procrastinate on Purpose
More effort is wasted doing things that don't matter than is wasted doing things inefficiently. And if that is the case, elimination is a more useful skill than optimization. I am reminded of the famous Peter Drucker quote, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
James Clear • The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No
For manual work, we need only efficiency; that is, the ability to do things right rather than the ability to get the right things done.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
the difference between time-use and time-waste is effectiveness and results.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.“ -P Drucker
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