“Know Thy Time” if he wants to, and be well on the road toward contribution and effectiveness.
卓有成效是可以学会的
Effectiveness can be learned.
卓有成效是一种习惯,是不断训练出来的综合体.
Effectiveness is a habit; that is a complex of practices.
一个重视贡献的人,为成果负责的人,不管他职位多卑微,他仍属于“高层管理者”.
The man who focuses on contribution and who takes responsibility for results, no matter how junior, is in the most literal sense of the phrase,“top management”.
谁必须利用我的产出,以使我的产出卓有成效?
Who has to use my output for it to become effective?
有效的管理者在用人所长的同时,必须容忍人之所短。
The effectiveness executive knows that to get strength one has to put up with weakness.
有效的管理者用人,是着眼于机会,而非着眼于问题。
They focus on opportunity in their staffing—not on problems.
我们该知道运用自己上司的长处,这也正是下属工作卓有成效的关键。
Making the strength of the boss productive is a key to the subordinate’s own effectiveness.
有效的管理者会顺应自己的习性,不会勉强自己
the effective executive tries to be himself, he does not pretend to be someone else.
有效的管理者坚持把重要的事放在前面做,每次只做好一件事。
They concentrate their own time and energy as well as that of their organization—on doing one thing at a time, and on doing first things first.
管理者的一项具体任务就是要把今天的资源投入到创造未来中去。
To commit today’s resources to the future.
有效的管理者打算做一项新的业务,一定先删除一项原有的业务。
The effective executive will slough off an old activity before he starts on a new one.
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer. 接受这个事实,我们几乎把任何人都视为志愿者。
The computer is a moron. 计算机是个白痴。
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
n 有些公司他们期待以安装计算机,来减少雇用员工,他们已经意识到...现在反而需要更多,更昂贵的员工,这些员工的名字叫做 '操作员'(操作程序) 或 '规划师'(程序)。
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. 新的信息科技...网络和电子邮件...几乎已经消除了实体的通讯成本。
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. 在沟通上最重要的是去听它不说的。
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. 排名并不赋予特权或权力。而是责任。
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. 现在,我们接受学习是一个终生的过程,如此才能跟上变化的事实。且最迫切的任务是教人们如何去学习。
In fact, that management has a need for advanced education - as well as for systematic manager development - means only that management today has become an institution of our society. 事实上,管理需要深入的研究学习-就像系统开发的经理一样 - 意味着今日,管理在我们的社会上已成为一个研究机构。
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. 经理对知识的应用和执行是要负责的。
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. 当一个科目已经变成完全过时,我们会把它列为必修课程。
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. 今天,知识力量。它可以控制通往机会和进步的通道。
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. 知识必需得到改善,提出质疑,并不断增加,否则会消失。
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. 身为顾问,我最大贡献是无知地提了几个问题。
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. 营销的目标在于了解客户,有适合他的产品或服务,就有销售力。
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. 试图预测未来,就像在黑夜里,把车开到没有灯光的乡间道路上,一路望着后车窗。
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. 我们唯一知道的未来是,它将与现在不同。
The best way to predict the future is to create it. 预测未来的最好的方法,就是创建它。
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information. 我们可以肯定的说,或许有九成的可能性,一种新的行业即将诞生,而它与信息会完全不相关。
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. 商业其目的是增加与维持一个客户。
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. 商业,这是很容易界定的-它是别人的钱。
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. 管理层对展现自己长处有所期望,却出现相反的结果时,检查这些决策,可知道他们在那里需要改进,他们缺乏那些知识或信息。
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. 目标管理是有用的-如果你知道目标的话。但百分之九十的时候你没有。
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. 大多数我们所说的管理,大都在于很难要人们去做他们的工作。
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. 我们太多所谓的管理,都包括要人们去做的难为。
What's measured improves. 用什么来衡量改善。
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. 效率就是把已经这样在做的,把它做的更好。
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. 当有效能地去做不应该做的事时,不会做而无用的。
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. 安静思考来看有效的行动,从宁静的反思往往会有更有效的行动。
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product. 不论生产东西为何,最有效的生产方式,就是尽量把有可能变成产品的多个行动,汇集在一个管理之下来进行。
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. 不管在任何层级,做出好的决定,都是至关重要的技能。
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. 人通常不愿承担一年会做错两大错的风险。而人却常在承担一年两大错误的风险。
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. 大多数的讨论决策,假如只有高层管理人员作出决定,或只由高级管理人员来决定事项。这是一个危险的错误。
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. 管理只要把事做对,领导则要做对的事。
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. 有效的领导不是靠演讲或让人喜欢听讲;领导的定义是结果而非属性。
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. 生产力的工作责任不是由工人负责,而是经理。
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. 当出现个人在重要的工作上表现不佳,让同事无法容忍时,首长对于组织和他们的同事是有责任的。
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. 没有一个机构只靠天才或超人来管理,能活得长久的。它必须是有组织的方式,由一般人在和睦相处的领导下组成。
Never mind your happiness; do your duty. 别在意快乐或不快乐;尽您的责任。
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. 计划只是美好的愿望而已,除非计划立即变成艰苦的工作。
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. 除非承担义务的实行,否则只是承诺,希望... 不算是计划。