Quotes About Evaluation

It's not just that we need to set more flexible goals. We ourselves also need to be more flexible in the way we evaluate success and failure.

Resulting is the tendency to look at whether a result was good or bad to figure out whether a decision was good or bad.

Teller realizes that when you're building pedestals, you are also accumulating sunk costs that make it hard to quit even as you find out that you may not be able to train the monkey to juggle those torches.

Backcasting and premortems complement each other. Backcasting imagines a positive future; a premortem imagines a negative future. We can't create a complete picture without representing both the positive space and the negative space. Backcasting reveals the positive space. Premortems reveal the negative space. Backcasting is the cheerleader; a premortem is the heckler in the audience.

Pour un homme. Et quand je le vois, là, dans le hall de l'ambassade, je le trouve insignifiant, joli garçon, c'est tout. Je relis Anna Karenine.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun. Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

In professional football, there are always going to be critics.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

The fact is, there's no single magic number that defines profitability for a game.

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

I'm in the factory a lot so I see how hard the guys work, but you never really know how quickly and effectively the other teams' development programmes are going until you get to the track. It's only then that we will be able to tell.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.

The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.

People want to know on an ongoing basis, 'Am I doing right? Am I moving in the right direction? Do you think I'm progressing?' Nobody's going to wait for an annual cycle to get that feedback.

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

The most important metrics are did we execute the way in which we said we would, and did we deliver the value to the business that we had promised?