I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
There are lots of people at our company who dedicate their time and effort to make sure that the journey from product design to hitting the screen is as seamless as possible.
Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.
I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do.
The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.
Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.
I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.
I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.
But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.
Productivity doesn't have to be complicated. It can be easily boosted through a manageable combination of the right tools, resources, and habits to make the most of your time.
Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
Remember, America: organization will set you free.
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.
Production is something I've never come to terms with.
