Quotes About Evaluation

we need to find measures of long-term performance to supplement or replace short-term financials, measures that will be convincing enough to satisfy shareholders.

There is no person in the firm who is really charged with protecting the brand equity. Those nominally in charge of the brand,perhaps termed brand managers or product marketing managers, are in fact evaluated on the basis of short-term measures.

Everything is on the table and nothing on the altar.

Many people] plunge into all sorts of detail about what they want to accomplish, what investment they should buy, and where they want to be, without fist making sure they know where they stand now.

HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist's work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was the artist trying to achieve? Did he/she succeed? The third's a zinger: Was it worth doing?

The discipline process is simply, 'Here is our standard and here is your performance. We've got a gap. As your leader, I am here to understand the reasons for the gap and help you to raise your game. If the gap does not go away, I will have to escalate.

If I am at the same place, I was last year in regards to self-improvement, goals etc. I will take my own self back behind the wood shed and have a come to Jesus session as that is just unacceptable period!

Evaluation is not an afterthought to training, but rather is meant to be integrated into the entire learning and development process. If you wait until after a program is designed, developed, and delivered to consider what value it is supposed to provide to the organization and how you will evaluate it, there is little chance of the program having much value.

Are they changed because they want to go back to their old life, or is it because they're so depressed at realizing their old life was no better than what we have now?

They now knew they were being tested somehow, put through WICKED's trials.

mistakes subject to so discerning and public a post?mortem as weather forecasters.

I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?" Arron Altman Broadcast News 1987

I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can only be true by accident. A faith worth having is faith worth discussing and testing.

We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

that the effectiveness of leaders must be judged not by their press clippings but by actual social change measured by intent and by the satisfaction of human needs and expectations;

when one finds oneself participating in an endeavor entirely without merit, one withdraws.

Testing is questioning a product in order to evaluate it.

The gatekeeper at the first door asks, "Is it true?" The second gatekeeper asks, "Is it helpful?" The third gatekeeper asks, "Is it kind?

Discernment, says Lonsdale, is about the "spiritual interpretation and evaluation of feelings, and particularly with the direction in which we are moved by them.

Good decisions mean a wholehearted yes to both the positives and negatives that come with any choice.

My best critic is me, too late.

By using our freedoms, I do not means just joining demonstrations, political parties, and so on and so forth, which is only part of the democratic process, but examining ideas, from whatever source they come, to see how they may usefully contribute to our lives and o the societies we live in.