Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) Austrian-American business consultant
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, ch. 2 (1974)

Sometimes quoted as "Management" and "Leadership"; also attrib. Warren Bennis

 
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