Efficient vs. Effective

May 30th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I love articles that differentiate between efficiency and effectiveness. This is another one that explores the difference by Skip at RTfaCTO with a little different take. See for yourself …

Random Thoughts from a CTO: Efficient vs. Effective
You hear both of these terms thrown around by management, many times interchangeably usually around productivity - “You must be more efficient!” “Can you be more effective in your work?” However, I believe there is a big difference between these two words and even more so, you must have both in order to maximize productivity.

Let’s go to the definitions:

Tags: Information · Leadership

2 responses so far ↓

1 Helen Smith // Jun 2, 2006 at 2:53 am

Effective or efficient…makes no difference if you have a lousy system at work and a bad boss. Our workplace systems are bad and that’s why the results are lousy ..enron, worldcomm…..read this excellent piece of work, “WHY YOUR BOSS IS PROGRAMMED TO BE A DICTATOR” http://www.changethis.com/19.BossDictator ..if we want to be more efficient, we need an effective system…which is what we don’t currently have.
2 Larry Hendrick // Jun 2, 2006 at 8:43 am

I have downloaded the referenced manifesto, over at Change This, and will read and comment later. Thanks for your comment Helen, and the link.