More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
Seth Godin
Operations keeps the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.
Joy Gumz
Senior management is simply a flag bearer when a business decision is made. It is of no use unless others follow the flag.
Eiji Toyoda, former Chairman of Toyota
If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes about solutions.
Albert Einstein
Working for excellence and not success is only invoking, invigorating, igniting, inspiring and indefatigable motivation within us to encourage, energize, enthuse, enrich and empower environment inside and outside
Anuj Somany
Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
“Top” management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I’m still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
Robert Townsend
Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain.
Swedish proverb
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude
Ralph Marston
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The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.
Mark Zuckerberg
Give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese proverb
The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need.
Masaaki Imai
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.
Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement
Aristotle
All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
Taiichi Ohno
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world
TS Eliot
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Frank Herbert, Dune
To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.
Sam Walton, founder of Walmart.
Commitment without understanding is a liability.
Oliver Wight
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Henry Ford
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
Peter Drucker
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit
Aristotle
To complicate is easy, to simplify is hard. To complicate, just add. Everyone is able to complicate. Few people are able to simplify.
Bruno Munari
When we fail to grasp the systemic source of problems, we are left to ‘push on’ symptoms rather than eliminate underlying causes.
Peter Senge
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence
Aristotle
It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.
Masaaki Imai
A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.
Marcel Telles
Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.
Robert S. Kaplan
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.
Robert S. Kaplan
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation
Horace
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting the first one.
Mark Twain
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Charles Swindoll
The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time
Thomas Edison
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
Steve Jobs
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision and action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker, futurist
Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.
Shigeo Shingo
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing.
Michael Porter
Learning is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
Edwards Deming
Everything can be improved.
Clarence W. Barron
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to success.
Robert J. Sawyer
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Without a standard, there is no logical basis for decision making or taking action.
Joseph M. Juran
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
The most dangerous kind of waste is waste we don’t recognize.
Shigeo Shingo
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Sir Winston Churchill
Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can
Chris Evert
The only way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Winston Churchill
Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms
Samuel Johnson
The only way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Winston Churchill
Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.
Mark Twain
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Sir Winston Churchill
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best
Marva Collins
Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.
Massaki Imai
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price
Samuel Johnson
The only thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
Taiichi Ohno
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Don’t look with your eyes, look with your feet. Don’t think with your head, think with your hands.
Taiichi Ohno
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Henry Miller
If you want small changes in life, work on your attitude. If you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Stephen Covey
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Peter Drucker
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not a good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.
Bruce Henderson
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.
Martellus Bennett
Quality is free.
Philip Crosby
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
To suggest is to create. To define is to destroy.
Garcia Lorca
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
Most companies die from over-eating than from starvation.
Dave Packard
All organizations are perfectly aligned to get the results they get.
Arthur W. Jones
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