Action Quote by Margaret Heffernan

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a…

— Peter Drucker

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your…

— Peter Megargee Brown

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

— Peter Drucker

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at…

— Peter Drucker

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

— Earl Nightingale

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to…

— Kevin Drum

Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions,…

— Michael Ray

Another key role the CEO plays is to focus efforts.

— Scott D. Anthony

“Executives are doers; they execute. Knowledge is useless to executives until it has been translated into deeds. But before springing into action, the executive…

— Harvard Business School Press

I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere,…

— Judith M Bardwick

Successful people are action oriented.

— Jim Rohn

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized…

— Stephen Covey