Quotes About Supervision

As disciplinary norms lost their effectiveness, television was crafted into a machinery of regulation, introducing previously unknown effects of subjection and supervision. This is why television is a crucial and adaptable part of a relatively long transition (or changing of the guard) lasting several decades, between a world of older disciplinary institutions and one of 24.7 control.

The only way out of this mess, of course, is to take steps to ensure that you control the idiots that you become. To take your chain gang, hand in hand, and lead them. The best way to do this is with a list.

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

We need leaders, not corporate types who think managing is leading.

Leadership is also quite different from just doing your job well.

Sandpaw, put that fire ant down. No, I don't care that Firepaw might not know what it is.

When Mrs. Sardotopolis got home there would be eight other children to take care of. But that was a simple matter. None of them was sick. When the eight children weren't sick they tumbled, shrieked and squealed in the dark hallway or in the street. Anywhere. Mrs. Sardotopolis only listened with half an ear. As long as they made noise they were healthy. So from day to day she listened not for their noise but to hear if any of them grew quiet.

I asked for daily reports on developments at major financial firms and,

Guidance has less legal force than regulations, but it still carries considerable weight with bank examiners.

Nevertheless, despite his presence, here too regulation and supervision fell short.

Despite a sincere effort, the SEC was not well suited to supervising the investment banks.

under Dodd's bill we would also have little role in ensuring systemic stability.

presidents were particularly alarmed at the prospect of losing bank supervision duties

undertaken in conjunction with the Treasury and other bank regulators).

rules aren't useful unless they are enforced.

It operated by responding to complaints and did not conduct regular examinations.

It would also have the authority to examine individual institutions, in cooperation with the prudential regulator,

The goal of macroprudential regulation is to identify and defuse more broad-based risks that may not be evident when looking at individual institutions in isolation.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

If you would have your business done, go; if not, send. Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

There is no such thing as free regulation.

It's very important to have the comfort of the regulator in every geography where you operate.