Quotes About Supervision

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

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C]hildren. . . like all living things, grow best in the loosened soil of relaxed oversight.

That McCarthy, he thought, is a damn good shop foreman. He has the knack of needling a man, getting him to put out his best efforts, to do his utmost in spite of himself. He's a natural leader; he almost inspired me, for a moment, there.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

The job of media is the accountability of government.

My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.

I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

The countess regarded her sons as too ill-trained to admit of the slightest intimacy with their sisters. All communication between the poor children was therefore strictly watched. When the boys came home from school, the count was careful not to keep them in the house. The boys always breakfasted with their mother and sisters, but after that the count took them off to museums, theatres, restaurants, or, during the summer season, into the country.

I also made a beeline for the latrine. Not just to see if it was clean. Was there a shortage of toilet paper, were any mirrors cracked, were there any missing showerheads? Finding any of these situations immediately told me one of several things—the unit is running short of upkeep money, no one is checking on these things to get them fixed, or the troops are not being supervised well enough. Find out which and fix it.

You know the difference between firefighters and Boy Scouts?" "What?" "Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

Clocks need a man to keep them in proper subjection.)

The only consolation is that homeopathy can only be practised on animals by a fully trained vet or under the supervision of one, because it is forbidden for the average high street homeopath to treat animals on their own.

I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

I played videogames growing up, but my parents really monitored how much I was playing.

It is my view there is a gaping hole in parliamentary oversight.

God help anyone who stands in your way. You do like to manage other people's lives, don't you?" "Only when it's obvious I can do a better job of it than they can.

If I felt at times undersupervised, it was this same freedom that stands out as one of the pleasures of my childhood

1809If I felt at times under-supervised, it was this same freedom that stands out as one of the pleasures of my childhood.

If I felt at times undersuprvised, it was this same freedom that stands out as one of the pleasures of my childhood.

Management isn't doing—it's seeing that it gets done. Following

Wait. You work for me? I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.