"Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability."

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Source : "Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done". Book by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, 2002.

Lawrence Bossidy

#Accountability Quotes #Systematic Quotes #Execution Quotes

“There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.”
“I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.”

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“What an incredibly proud moment as a Canadian to have the Canadian flag on the left shoulder of your space suit, looking at the Canadian logos on the robotic arm in the payload bay of the space shuttle, and there's the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, which was an extension of the Canadarm to inspect the tiles underneath the orbiter. It struck me that there were more Canadian logos in space than any other country's I saw.”

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“It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.”
“The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.”

Source : Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.27, Penguin
“You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.”
“All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.”
“I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.”

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