"The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment."

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Source : Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.136, Addison-Wesley

Tom DeMarco

#Team Quotes #Goal Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.”
“Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.”

Source : Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012
“I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.”

Source : "Jerry Buss, Lakers Owner and Innovator, Dies at 80" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2013.
“The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.”
“I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.”
“A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.”
“It is a really good question. The other day I was praying over something as I was running, and I ended up saying to God, â€˜Look, this is all very well, but isnâ€™t it about time you did something, if youâ€™re there?â€™ Which is probably not what the archbishop of Canterbury should say.”

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