Quotes About Implementation

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

With a little leadership, you'd get it in here very quickly, and it could be put to use on the inner cities and lots of other things, and it would be beautiful.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

There can be no learning without action, and no action without learning

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

We learn to do by doing.

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

There is a big difference between just learning something, and actually LIVING what you learn.

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

A vision without execution is an hallucination.

It is comforting to believe that if we could only implement the right cells and other lean tools to eliminate waste in the process, we could let it rip and get great results forever . . . or at least for a long time. But processes do not work that way.

Actually putting your people first and treating them as if they matter to the organization's success, although easy to talk about and easy to understand, is notoriously difficult to implement.

The problem is that there are too many organizations where having a mission or values statement written down somewhere is confused with implementing those values.

We don't reject informal talk, formal presentations, and quantitative analysis. These are often important precursors to intelligent action. It's just that they are not substitutes for action.

Most answer reveal themselves through doing, not thinking.

Most answers reveal themselves through doing, not thinking.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

By coding at a higher level of abstraction, you are free to concentrate on solving domain problems, and can ignore petty implementation details.