"If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it."

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Source : "Quality First: Selected Papers on Quality & Productivity Improvement". Book by Myron Tribus, Washington, D.C.: National Society of Professional Engineers (#1459), 1992.

Myron Tribus

#Goal Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.”

Source : "Gerd Müller hails 'incredible' record-breaking goalscorer Lionel Messi". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.
“Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you.”
“The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.”
“The problem is we're looking for something that doesn't exist. We're looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There is either good art or bad art. Art is never about its content. It's about its scaffolding.”
“Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.”
“Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, 'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the downside.”
“Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.”
“Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).”

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