Quotes About Underperformance

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Early signs of gaps between results and plans must be viewed first as data – triggering analysis – before concluding that the gaps are clear and obvious evidence of employee underperformance.

There is no question that the losing IPOs far outnumber the winners. Of the 8,606 firms examined, the returns on 6,796 of these firms, or 79 percent, have subsequently underperformed the returns on a representative small stock index, and almost half the firms have underper-formed by more than 10 percent per year.

A raccoon could have been trained to do better than I was doing, though it would have to be a smart raccoon.

When there's a lot of talk about a team that should or could be winning things, and it's not happening, it can become a little bit frustrating.

I've been guilty of over analyzing & under achieving.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

It was difficult to know which part of the government would ignite first. The Supreme Court had plenty of dry kindling: most of its justices were old men born in the previous century. Congress was eternally bickering. And no executive had ever underperformed quite as spectacularly as James Buchanan.

Stepping back from almost any situation with an underperformer, it's always easy to see the solution. They need to move on—sooner rather than later. Up close, however, organizations tend to draw out departures, as people fret about the employee's emotional reaction to being let go. Oftentimes, managers feel guilty about putting a friend out of work, or remorseful they didn't give candid enough feedback along the way, or both.

It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.

But virtually all aspects of underperformance—lower standardized test scores, lower college grades, lower graduation rates—persist among students from the African-American middle class. This situation forces on us an uncomfortable recognition: that beyond class, something racial is depressing the academic performance of these students.

Nor were managers any better in the supposedly less efficient, small-capitalization universe. Almost three-quarters of small-cap managers underperformed the S&P Small-Cap Index. When

It's been said that only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance; everything else requires leadership.1