The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

You can't control what you can't measure

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

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

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.

While stabbing someones back, you recklessly expose your own.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.