Quotes About Assessment

We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.

When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.

I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

I think there's something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should've done and how they've screwed up.

Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.

personal involvement offers the best way to determine if our charitable investments are being put to good use.

Tracy assessed Shirley Berkman to be midfifties trying to look midthirties.

Lawrence Berkman criticizing

collaborative teams think of common formative assessments as academic scrimmages or dress rehearsals.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual", find out how he feels about astrology.

Don't ask for a criticism until you are sure you can't give it yourself. Then you will be in a fine state to receive it.

Interviews are useful for other things besides screening candidates. For

Confirmation bias can cause bosses to make excessively glowing judgments about people they have invested a lot of time and money in or who they simply find to be likable or admirable. Even if your judgment is generally sound, confirmation bias can blind you to mediocre or even downright rotten performance displayed by your favorites.

Paul Goodman commented that "Few great men could pass personnel.

Here is a difference between the Warrior and the Hero. The man (or the boy) accessing the Hero, as we've said, does not know his limitations; he is romantic about his invulnerability. The warrior, however, through his clarity of thinking realistically assesses his capacities and his limitations in any given situation.

Although Dr. Levinson had spoken with a touch of hyperbole, Slater soon discovered that she'd meant what she said. He was instructed to draw up a game plan and risk assessment, a preliminary budget (though Dr. Levinson had made it clear on his way out that cost was to be no object), put together a team of whatever specialists he would require, and have it all on her desk in seventy-two hours.

In all his battles, Haig never seems to have appreciated that there came a time when he had obtained or achieved all he could hope for and that to press on would either throw away his success to date or result in terrible losses.

On the other end of the phone sits the employer who decided to call you in for an interview. Three thoughts are running through his mind: Can you do the job? Will you do the job? Will you work out in their organization so they can manage you?

Of that one, I wrote: "Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time.