Quotes About Implementation

What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.

The thing about movies is that till it goes on floors, it's just preparations for the film.

I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them.

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

In the end, none of our election recommendations was implemented. Afterward I asked ISAF's intelligence chief, General Michael Flynn—among the most sympathetic officers to the anticorruption agenda—if any surveillance satellites had been assigned to monitor turnout. He seemed startled, as though we had never discussed the idea. Oh no, came his answer. They were too busy tracking insurgents.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.

Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

You must decide whether you want a DO-CONFIRM checklist or a READ-DO checklist.

How will we feed an ever-growing population? Provide clean water, generate renewable energy, prevent and cure disease and slow down global climate change? I hope that science and technology will provide the answers to these questions, but it will take people, human beings with knowledge and understanding, to implement these solutions.

Strategy without execution is hallucination.

Talk is cheap, action is expensive.

The greatest gap in the world is the gap between knowing and doing.

The vital detail about the design is captured in the code. A well-written implementation should be transparent, revealing the model underlying it.

The astrolabe was a mechanical implementation of an object-oriented model of the sky.

crucial discoveries always emerge during the design/implementation effort.

This tight coupling of the application to the specifics of the implementation strips away most of the benefits of abstraction in the domain layer and makes continuing changes ever more expensive.

two forms of the Adapter Pattern: object and class adapters. Class adapters require multiple inheritance. You can implement more

Reading is good, action is better.

Si yo eligiera un empleado al azar de cualquier nivel, departamento o región, y ese empleado tuviera una idea absolutamente brillante que abriera una fuente de crecimiento radicalmente nueva, ¿qué tendría que hacer para llevar su idea a la práctica? ¿Dispone la empresa de las herramientas de gestión necesarias para ampliar esa idea a fin de que genere el máximo impacto, aun cuando no se ajuste a ninguna de las líneas de negocio actuales?

Top-down tends to be good practice when three preconditions are true: (a) you can specify in advance precisely what the program is to do, (b) the specification is unlikely to change significantly during implementation, and (c) you have a lot of freedom in choosing, at a low level, how the program is to get that job done.