Quotes About Results

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

The zombie, of course, is a metaphor.  He stands for the results—whatever they are—of man's hostility to honesty, simplicity, truth, and love. The

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

Secure early wins. Early wins build your credibility and create momentum.

Aim for early wins in areas important to the boss. Whatever your own priorities, figure out what your boss cares about most. What are his priorities and goals, and how do your actions fit into this picture? Once you know, aim for early results in those areas. One good way is to focus on three things that are important to your boss and discuss what you're doing about them every time you interact.

look for early wins based solely on your boss's priorities.

Studies have found that more than 40 to 50 percent of senior outside hires fail to achieve desired results.

In the first few weeks, you need to identify opportunities to build personal credibility. In the first 90 days, you need to identify ways to create value and improve business results that will help you get to the break-even point more rapidly.

Underpromise and Overdeliver Whether you and your boss agree on expectations, try to bias yourself somewhat toward underpromising achievements and overdelivering results. This strategy contributes to building credibility. Consider how your organization's capacity for change might affect your ability to deliver on the promises you make. Be conservative in what you promise. If you deliver more, you will delight your boss.

When providers have to compete on results, the problem of supply-driven demand, in which available capacity leads to care with questionable benefits, will largely disappear.

Pay-for-performance will only raise costs if providers get higher pay for process compliance but do not have to compete on results.

Consumers will only be able to play a bigger role in their care, and make better choices, if providers and health plans realign competition around patient results and disseminate the relevant information and advice.

How to create competition on results throughout the system, and the kinds of information that need to be measured, analyzed, and disseminated, appear as recurring themes throughout this book.

Moving to value-based competition on results will require significant changes by all system participants, as we have noted. However, the system can, and will, change from within. Each system participant can significantly improve value, and reap the benefits, even if nothing else in the system changes.

Competition on value must revolve around results. The results that matter are patient outcomes per unit of cost at the medical condition level.

Competing on results requires that results be measured and made widely available. Only by measuring and holding every system participant accountable for results will the performance of the health care system ever be significantly improved.

Mandatory measurement and reporting of results is perhaps the single most important step in reforming the health care system.

When people are randomized into diet-and-exercise interventions versus diet alone, the diet-and-exercise groups do better, but the difference in weight loss only averages about two pounds.3095 The studies lasted between three and twelve months, and all that extra prescribed exercise seemed to translate into only a few pounds lost.

The longer-term trials performed even worse. In a meta-analysis of eighteen randomized controlled studies lasting a minimum of six months, the diet-plus-exercise group failed to beat out the diet-only group at all.

Both were given identical instructions to follow a healthier diet, but one group was also given fourteen grams of dried goji berries a day, which is about two tablespoons.3923 Forty-five days later, the goji group appeared to cut two and a half inches off their waistlines

As a physician, my priority is getting (and keeping) people healthy, but when people are surveyed about their motivation for dieting, disturbingly, "health" may come in last.927 Dieters want results—they want weight to come off.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) is a nonprofit, peer-led weight-loss program that has been publishing its results for more than fifty years.923 Not having to siphon off money for shareholders, TOPS is five times cheaper than Weight Watchers and may be fifty times less expensive than other leading programs such as Nutrisystem or Jenny

So, for best results, first grind up the seeds with a blender or coffee or spice grinder, or buy them preground or "milled.