Quotes About Evaluation

Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.