Quotes About Performance

from the willingness of an organization's people to embrace full accountability for the results they seek.

The only real way to measure progress, the only real way to see if activity has any real teeth is how that activity ties to the Key Results the company is after. Activity doesn't matter, it's all about results.

Division of labor tends to bring with it a division of responsibility that can distance everyone from the one factor they all share: results.

The most compelling reason to work on your culture? Culture produces results.

Accountability begins by clearly defining results. If the results are not clear, then accountability will break down, resulting in lower morale and misaligned work

Fear keeps people from the risk associated with doing their best.

Where performance is measured, performance improves. Where performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates." What you pay attention to grows.

A leading indicator is an early-warning signal that tells you, before it's too late, that the process is at risk for not producing the desired output. A lagging indicator tells you the outcome and that something might have gone wrong after the fact. Let's

Getting a team to act on the feedback they receive from one another creates real traction and ensures true progress toward results.

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise and that sort of thing, and it feels good to get that level of name recognition.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

The best I can explain this uncharacteristic outburst is that I had seen a coach go ballistic on TV, and the actor in me overtook the coach.

I'm writing a new book called 'Ventroliquism for Dummies'.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

We waited on the plaza while the band wondered what to play at a time like this—something to console or wake the world, or simply to please themselves.

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

There is no such thing as a dysfunctional organization, because every organization is perfectly aligned to achieve the results it currently gets.

Great athletes can at once play the game and observe it as a whole.

To be an actress," she said; "to ruin one's life before a room full of people ... What fun!