Quotes About Evaluation

people tend to be overly optimistic about their relative standing on any activity in which they do moderately well.

Whatever their flaws, rankings are less noisy than ratings.

Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.

Wann immer einen die Dinge erschreckten, sei es eine gute Idee, sie zu messen.

In the West, military intelligence (MI) analysts have long followed a simple premise: Assess enemy capabilities, not intentions.

The U.S. collected information superbly and everywhere, from space to dirt. They tracked all kinds of events and things and people. For long-lead-time matters, like the order of battle for the Chinese fleet, that sufficed. For short-fuse needs, it got much, much more excruciating. Of the mass of data gathered, only a small percentage (50 percent? 10 percent? 5 percent?) ever got analyzed. Only a tiny fraction of that produced the specificity to allow action.

Au fond, ce journal aura été un perpétuel exercice d'accommodation. Échapper au flou, maintenir le corps et l'esprit dans le même axe… J'ai passé ma vie à « faire le point ».

Es saludable analizar críticamente nuestra visión de mundo, el tejido de creencias que constituye el marco de referencia desde el cual evaluamos nuestro entorno. Es una hiedra espinosa enraizada en nuestra mente, que se adhiere a nuestro ser interceptando la luz, y que necesita de un jardinero que sepa dónde cortar. Ha crecido alimentada por el continuo proceso de educación formal e informal que determina nuestra panera de pensar y actuar.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

I pulled the rearview down and looked at myself in the mirror for a spell, trying to spot virtues.

The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

Percival guessed that his prey preferred to listen, letting her friends carry on with whatever amusing nonsense filled their lives, while she privately assessed their habits, cataloging their strengths and faults with clinical ruthlessness.

Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

Now the mental test of any variety is one of the prime voodoo fetishes of our time, so you may have to argue a little to find out the results of the tests;

At the same time, we noted that a number of scholars have tried to make more out of Thomas than this document can bear.

Second is the rise of higher criticism

Sharp disaster in a fresh new coma Was it worth it when it was over

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

People value happiness by what it costs.

the majority of the learning on a tactical exercise comes afterwards in what is called an "after action review," where all the participants talk about what took place. This phase is so important that to not do it is to have essentially wasted the exercise.

People despise critics because people despise weakness, and criticism is the weakest thing you can do in writing. It is the written equivalent of air guitar—flurries of silent, sympathetic gestures with nothing at their heart but the memory of the music.

Also, remember that this is about the employee's performance and not his or her personality. You want your employees to be happy at work, but you don't want them to be happy if their work is not up to your standards.