Maelle Gavet Quotes

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and designing the systems to keep your team, not you, busy, busy, busy.

Major reforms include optimisation of the Signals establishments, restructuring of repair echelons, redeployment of ordnance echelons, better utilisation of supply and transport echelons, besides closure of military farms, and Army postal establishments in peace locations.

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, "the more parts, the more trouble," also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually multiply the probability of being misunderstood; economies in expression (without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more honest and more clear.

Don't let complexity stop you.

The more you have to do, the more you have only NOW to get it done. That's why busy people get the most done.

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

Everything takes longer and costs more.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.