clear instructions Quotes

When it comes to dieting, I'm the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don't like to count points, etc. I don't want to have a lot of choices.

What is decided must be implemented and implemented without any departmental interpretation

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it's a twist ending.

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.

The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.

All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it . . ." Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues