Quotes

The Effective Executive, Page 1188

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization for one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

The Effective Executive, Page 1197

Meetings… need to be purposefully directed.

The Effective Executive, Page 1276

The larger the organization, the more time will be needed just to keep the organization together and running, rather than to make it function and produce.

The Effective Executive, Page 1311

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.

The Effective Executive, Page 1323

The great majority of executives tend to focus downward. They are occupied with efforts rather than with results.

The Effective Executive, Page 1333

The man who focuses on efforts and who stresses his downward authority is a subordinate no matter how exalted his title and rank.

The Effective Executive, Page 1353

To ask, ‘What can I contribute?’ is to look for the unused potential in the job.

The Effective Executive, Page 1354

…what is considered excellent performance in a good many positions is often but a pale shadow of the job’s full potential of contribution.

The Effective Executive, Page 1378

Direct results always come first.

The Effective Executive, Page 1390

An organization that is not capable of perpetuating itself has failed.