Quotes About Improvement

Managerial productivity—that is, the output of a manager per unit of time worked—can be increased in three ways: 1.  Increasing the rate with which a manager performs his activities, speeding up his work. 2.  Increasing the leverage associated with the various managerial activities. 3.  Shifting the mix of a manager's activities from those with lower to those with higher leverage.

In fact, if indicators are put in place, the competitive spirit engendered frequently has an electrifying effect on the motivation each group brings to its work, along with a parallel improvement in performance.

Are you adding real value or merely passing information along? How do you add more value? By continually looking for ways to make things truly better in your department. You are a manager. The central thought of my book is that the output of a manager is the output of his organization. In principle, every hour of your day should be spent increasing the output or the value of the output of the people whom you're responsible for.

The review is usually dedicated to two things: first, the skill level of the subordinate, to determine what skills are missing and to find ways to remedy that lack; and second, to intensify the subordinate's motivation in order to get him on a higher performance curve for the same skill level (see the illustration on this page).

We all have a hard time saying things that are critical, whether we're talking to a superior employee or a marginal one. We must keep in mind, however, that no matter how stellar a person's performance level is, there is always room for improvement. Don't hesitate to use the 20/20 hindsight provided by the review to show anyone, even an ace, how he might have done better.

if you want to work and continue to work, you must continually dedicate yourself to retaining your individual competitive advantage.

The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.

My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

What is it about me that other people would change if they could?" He

I was beginning to see how Burrell was so successful with everything he did. Like many high achievers, Burrell enjoyed challenges so much that he actually sought them out or consciously created them. He seemed to aggressively set up challenging situations throughout his life. Why intentionally "make a mess?" So you can get really good at "cleaning up!

Time fades away, in other words; it's not any reason for us to give up trying to make it better.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

You may be good. You may even be better than everyone esle. But without a coach you will never be as good as you could be.

Is there something I can do to make things better?

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

One escape route from this negative conclusion is to argue, once again, that progress is being understated because quality improvements and new goods are not being adequately captured in the statistics. That would mean that inflation is being overstated, because some of the increase in prices comes from better things, not just from dearer things. If so, the poverty line is being increased too fast, and an ever-increasing proportion of the poor are not poor at all. If

The explanation for why progress should be so uneven differs from case to case; the reason why poor people are more likely to smoke is not the same as the reason why so many poor children are not vaccinated. These accounts are to come, but for now the point is simply that health progress creates gaps in health just as material progress creates gaps in living standards.

At the same time, the fraction of the world's population in extreme poverty fell from 84 to 24 percent. This

connect two clauses, the second of which refers to something that results from the first: there was a flash flood and by the next morning the town was under water. - connecting two identical comparatives, to emphasize a progressive change: getting better and better. - connecting two identical words, implying great duration or great extent: I cried and cried. - used to connect two identical

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

What if, tomorrow, my kids want to join the industry and for that matter, any other profession? We want the world and the industry to become a better place for them and us.

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

Whatever you learn will never go waste. It will be beneficial for me in future.