Quotes About System

view any failure, no matter how small, as a window on the system as a whole.

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I'm not religious about God," Boon agreed, "I'm religious about Man." "We believe in average guys," said Watt. "What happens is, the system makes them all fuckheads." "And I want to try to snap them out of that," said Boon. "That's why I write these songs, OK?

Capitalism was taken away from my life. To maintain this hair, I cannot invest in the system. Not a cent. I live from the powers, like Daniel, like Joshua. I live like Jesus Christ. I live spirit, because I am spirit. If I live in spirit, I have to walk in spirit.

In a well-maintained system, it might take a while to figure out how to make a change, but once you do, the change is usually easy and you feel much more comfortable with the system. In a legacy system, it can take a long time to figure out what to do, and the change is difficult also.

Over time, the system will get better as long as people aren't introducing duplication behind your back. If they are, you can take steps with them short of physical violence, but that is another issue.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

A good point, my son. But it underlines the fact that those who do not live in the power of the Holy Spirit are most vulnerable. Even believers can reduce the Faith to a philosophical system. They can retain the exterior forms of religion and lose its heart.

If you create the impression that you believe "there is no good here," the organizational immune system will certainly kick in.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

The system isn't something you bring to the business. It's something you derive from the process of building the business.

The fundamental problem in the U.S. health care system is that the structure of health care delivery is broken. This is what all the data about rising costs and alarming quality are telling us. And the structure of health care delivery is broken because competition is broken. All of the well-intended reform movements have failed because they did not address the underlying nature of competition.

The way to transform health care is to realign competition with value for patients. Value in health care is the health outcome per dollar of cost expended. If all system participants have to compete on value, value will improve dramatically.

Competition in the current system is at the same time too broad, too narrow, and too local.

Looking back, I see now that I accepted as normal the toxic gridlock and learned helplessness our political system teaches.

How to create competition on results throughout the system, and the kinds of information that need to be measured, analyzed, and disseminated, appear as recurring themes throughout this book.

U.S. consumers report higher dissatisfaction with their health care system than do consumers in other developed nations.

Moving to value-based competition on results will require significant changes by all system participants, as we have noted. However, the system can, and will, change from within. Each system participant can significantly improve value, and reap the benefits, even if nothing else in the system changes.

THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM is on a dangerous path, with a toxic combination of high costs, uneven quality, frequent errors, and limited access to care.

Competing on results requires that results be measured and made widely available. Only by measuring and holding every system participant accountable for results will the performance of the health care system ever be significantly improved.

Mandatory measurement and reporting of results is perhaps the single most important step in reforming the health care system.

Think of the cardiovascular system as a highway system. If roadways are the infrastructure of the city, the conduits that get us from here to there, then our circulatory system is the infrastructure of our bodies. Our blood vessels carry nutrients and oxygen to our cells and then carry carbon dioxide and other by-products away from our cells.

Capitalism is Crapitalism. It's a crap system for everyone other than the rich elite. But there is a cure – meritocracy. Meritocracy is about putting the world's smartest people in charge, those who follow Logos rather than Mythos. They will rule via reason and logic, not via violence, religious stories, or wealth. Humanity, at last, will be free.

Randomness and luck are related, but there is a useful distinction between the two. You can think of randomness as operating at the level of a system and luck operating at the level of the individual.