Quotes About Evaluation

the wider consequences of a strategic decision needs destructive testing, especially by the board.

Processes without intelligent and rigorous scrutiny are not enough.

learning audit – on what could be done more, what could be done less, and what is satisfactory.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

And when I gave him the urn, he weighed it in his hand and declared she wasn't quite all there—she'd weighed a full one hundred and sixty-five pounds when she was alive—so he weighed her on a scale and then sat down and worked out that there ought to be another one and three-quarter ounces of her

how much a thing means to one man and how little it means to another ain't the right way to look at a business matter.

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

A perfect work destroys the critic's art.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine" that measures a company's true value.

that, "as unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely." After those incidents, employees had to write a

Whenever Jeff Bezos roamed a fulfillment center or his own Seattle headquarters, he looked for defects—flaws in the company's systems or even its corporate culture.

At least one anointed bar raiser would participate in every interview process and would have the power to veto a candidate who did not meet the goal of raising the company's overall hiring bar.

He had the marketing department organize tests, running commercials in only the Minneapolis and Portland media markets and measuring whether they generated an uptick in local purchases. They did—but, Bezos concluded, not enough to justify the investment.12 "It was pretty clear afterward that TV advertising wasn't really having an impact," says Mark Stabingas, a finance vice president who joined the company from Pepsi.

When you have fit yourself snugly into Jeff Bezos's worldview and then evaluated both the successes and failures of Amazon over the past two decades, the future of the company becomes easy to predict. The answer to almost every conceivable question is yes.

regret minimization framework

Before we go forward, we have to look back.

No one bothered to glance up at us, as though they'd weighed the effort of sliding their eyes in our direction against the possible benefits and decided, hey, it isn't worth it. The