Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?
To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.
I do believe that the Barack Obama administration has reached a new low by using the instruments of the state against its political adversaries. Obama does not see people who disagree with him as well-meaning opponents but rather as enemies. That's not something that Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton did as President. Probably Obama's direct descendant in this line is Richard Nixon. And Obama seems to have carried Nixonian tactics to a new low. So, we've turned a corner in American politics that doesn't bode well for our future.
I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway
You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.