Peter Drucker on confusing efficiency with effectiveness https://t.co/rEFOWSrjsU
Peter Drucker on confusing efficiency with effectiveness https://t.co/rEFOWSrjsU
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker
Leon Jay • Create, Automate, Accelerate
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
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
And productivity for the knowledge worker means the ability to get the right things done. It means effectiveness.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive
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.