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““While efficiency is important, it is secondary. More important than efficiency is effectiveness — getting the right things done. Efficiency doesn’t matter if you are doing the wrong things in the first place.””

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“The ideas that move industries forward are not the result of tremendous creative insight but rather of masterful stewardship.”

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“One of the best places for efficiency is being efficient with things so that you can be effective with people.”

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“the foundation of effectiveness is not first techniques or tools, but character.”

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“You are everywhere commanded to be tender and sympathetic, diligent and useful.”*”

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“Generosity is at the heart of true productivity in all areas of life.”

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“Researchers have found that whenever most systems —such as airports, freeways, and other such things —exceed about 90 percent capacity, efficiency drops massively. Not…

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“Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

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“No man has a right to be idle. . . . [W]here is it that in such a world as this, health, and leisure,…

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“If we use deadlines and the efficiency paradigm for managing ambiguity, we often kill productivity rather than encourage it.”

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“Competence is doing what you need to do. Excellence is knowing what you’re supposed to do, getting it on autopilot, and going beyond.”

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“Am I desiring and seeking the temporal and eternal good of my neighbor with the same zeal, ingenuity and perseverance that I seek my…

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