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“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. –PETER F. DRUCKER”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“At the very least, your idea can change your organization. But it won’t go anywhere unless you know how to present it to those in power—and fight for it through the worst of their criticism.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“You can succeed in the future only by facing today’s challenges head-on, reframing them as opportunities, and taking advantage of them.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“Like the captain of a ship, you should always consult with your officers before making a decision, taking their viewpoints and suggestions into account. But the decisions are ultimately yours, and you must make them. If you don’t, circumstances will make your decisions for you.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“By its very nature, strategic thinking requires you to learn to make the best decisions you can as quickly as possible, boosting innovation and flexibility, helping your team adapt to circumstances as they change.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“Effectiveness refers to successfully producing the expected or desired result; it’s the degree to which you achieve your objectives, solve problems, and realize profits. In business, effectiveness is summed up by “doing the right things.” Efficiency is the accomplishment of a job with the minimum expenditure of time, effort, and cost—the shortest distance between a goal and a checkmark. In business, efficiency is summed up by “doing things right.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“Forge ahead despite your pain and give meaning to your loss.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.”
― Laura Stack, What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes

“Modern companies live and die based on how quickly they can face, embrace, and absorb change.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“Destiny isn’t a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“The great thing about goals is that it’s as easy to think big as it is to think small. Thinking big not only tests our reach and abilities; it also stretches our mental boundaries.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“One of the many things Peter Drucker taught us was that only two things actually generate profit: marketing and innovation. Everything else is an expense.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“yes, if you doubt it, it’s true that people can feel suicidal after using marijuana, especially when they are young and use high-potency products with high frequency. I know because it happened to my son in front of my very eyes.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“Never confuse activity with productivity.”
― Laura Stack, What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes

“The weight of the current evidence should be regarded as strong enough to elicit widespread public health warnings about the suspected role of marijuana use in precipitating suicidal behaviors, since the mandate of the relevant authorities is to err on the side of protecting public health rather than to establish scientific certainty beyond a shadow of a doubt.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“It’s no coincidence that the increases in suicides and toxicology rates with THC in Colorado teens are correlated. As a mother, I want the world to know my son isn’t just a statistic. He mattered. There is a reason Johnny died—and it is marijuana.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“Inflexible things break, sometimes spectacularly, when stressed.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“The summer before his senior year of high school, he took the SAT exam and got a perfect score on the math portion (800/800) and a 1430 overall. Then he took the ACT and scored a 34”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“Rather than dividing your attention between twenty goals and doing none of them well, pick one to three goals and execute them brilliantly. Multitasking works no better for team achievement than it does for individual productivity; you’re better off single-tasking in a fierce, focused way.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

“Ah, so using marijuana was no longer about feeling good. He had to use marijuana just to keep from feeling bad, a classic sign of substance use disorder.”
― Laura Stack, The Dangerous Truth About Today's Marijuana: Johnny Stack's Life and Death Story

“Executives execute. No one cares how many hours you spend at work and how many items you check off your to-do list. Execution and results are all that really matter in any business.”
― Laura Stack, Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time