Quotes About Implementation

Value is of no value unless you put it into practice.

We need to keep in mind the well-established fact that the full effects of monetary policy are felt only after long lags. This means that policy makers cannot wait until they have achieved their objectives to begin adjusting policy.

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

Many people say that we have sufficient laws in our country, just that they are not implemented properly. I completely disagree with them. I have studied many of the laws very carefully. We are still being governed by the same colonial laws which existed in British times. They have not been changed. Many of these laws need to be changed.

No one is suggesting societies the world over should implement an expensive basic income system in one stroke.

You have people that make suggestions you got people that do things.

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

The three processes—people, strategy, and operations— remain the building blocks and heart of good execution.

If you export a nontrivial interface, you should strongly consider providing a skeletal implementation to go with it. To the extent possible, you should provide the skeletal implementation via default methods on the interface so that all implementors of the interface can make use of it.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.

The effects of high optimism on decision making are, at best, a mixed blessing, but the contribution of optimism to good implementation is certainly positive. The main benefit of optimism is resilience in the face of setbacks.

Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster. Please take 5 to 10 minutes to write a brief history of that disaster.

The premise of the session is a short speech: "Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster. Please take 5 to 10 minutes to write a brief history of that disaster.

to duck responsibility. He or she might say this: The policy will be implemented … The leader, on the other hand, would say this: Let's do it!

Don't just practice it but actually follow through and go out and do it before preaching it to the world!

The only thing worse than a bad idea that gets implemented is a good one that is never broached.

Long lead times are required for effective action.

After a quarter of a century in politics, Roosevelt observed, he had found that change was realized by "men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 200th step.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?

Don't accept contingency fees or "pay for performance"; you're not a trained animal act. Variables are often outside your control, and besides, you're being paid for your best advice. It's up to the client to implement it effectively.

It's one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.