John Novak famous quotes

You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.
-- John Novak

#Jobs #Organization #Challenges

A robust internal auditing program shows its presence both at the beginning and end of continual improvement projects. In the beginning, internal audits identify opportunities for improvement, at the end, internal audits provide a mechanism for monitoring the implemented improvement in order to sustain its benefits for the long term.
-- John Novak

#Opportunity #Order #Long

With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.
-- John Novak

#Culture #Tools #Six

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.
-- John Novak

#Self #Kind #Restless

One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also.
-- John Novak

#Yoga #Discovery #Breathing

If you get invited to be part of a team, don't look at it as a burden to get out of, but rather an opportunity to inspire, invigorate, and bring life to the team.
-- John Novak

#Team #Opportunity #Inspire

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.
-- John Novak

#Mistake #Culture #Improvement

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.
-- John Novak

#Overcoming #Going Out #Statistics

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.