Quotes About Evaluation

It's difficult for analysts to get better at predicting when they don't know if their past predictions were ever any good.30

To make sure that X only works on the most promising ideas, the company has a "Rapid Evaluation" team that processes proposals, vets ideas, and promotes only those that seem achievable. This team, which consists of a combination of senior managers and inventors, first runs a pre-mortem, trying to come up with as many reasons as possible why the idea could fail.50 "Rapid Eval," as the team is known, considers the problem's scale, feasibility, and technological risks.

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

The report also said I show great potential as an agent. I figure they must be right, since I successfully broke into a safe to find that out.

Males approach with caution, first assessing whether the female has had anything to eat lately. If she looks well fed, the male has some hope of getting through the ordeal alive.

Generally speaking, no matter what you're trying to do, you need feedback to identify exactly where and how you are falling short. Without

if there is no agreement on what good performance is and no way to tell what changes would improve performance, then it is very difficult—often impossible—to develop effective training methods.

Purposeful practice involves feedback. You have to know whether you are doing something right and, if not, how you're going wrong.

keep this one thing at the front of your mind: subjective judgments are inherently vulnerable to all sorts of biases.

They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing

Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.

People judge what they do not understand

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

It's easy K. on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is mark which one is which, then you weigh one side against the other and you get your decision just like that. that's all you ever have to do. i live by this." "But what if you don't know the difference between a benefit and a cost? what if you've never been very good at telling a plus from a minus?

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

The definition of gross national product is nonsense, because they don't put such factors as environmental damage and limited resources into the calculation. In the mean time there is another parameter, the gross domestic product, but this is not much better.

Only when we have lived life fully can we take inventory, and say we are done." Andreas Simic

And it was the same with the Black Cauldron movie—the book was ten times better.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

I'm sure that's okay for a magazine or a book," he went on. "But this is the SAT. You can't get away with that stuff on the SAT.

It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

Nobody who comes in once every six weeks while you're working 80 or 90 hours a week is qualified to make a decision.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'