Effectiveness Quote by Douglas B. Reeves Download Open image “Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.” — Douglas B. Reeves ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effectiveness People Sometimes Technology
“Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
It's possible to be busy but not effective. Everyone's often busy, but few are effective. The effective are, the successful. — Kenneth W Griffin Copy Share Image
“Humans can find many ways to hide from themselves in distractions and by being “busy.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
“Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.” — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Technology continues to try to help our lives become better organized. In many instances it has accomplished that but in others it has only… — Germaine Moody Copy Share Image
“Being busy is not the same as being productive. In fact, being busy is a form of laziness -- lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the… — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
“I regularly invite educators and leaders to send me their questions, and hundreds of them do so every month. The most common question, however,… — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater… — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice. — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity. — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the… — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change. — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer Copy Share Image
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image