Quotes About Execution

Conversations for Action: Moves for Coordination

Good pictures require more than good lighting.

An architect draws the plans for a new building—but it still has to be built. A composer writes a new piece of music—but it still has to be played. A chef devises a new recipe—but the ingredients still have to be cooked. In the same way, God has given us a blueprint for living—but we must know what it is and then put it into action.

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered us not an excursion, but an execution.

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")

In addition to having the right people on board, you need to keep the bus in good running condition. That may seem obvious, but you'd be surprised how many companies with wonderful intentions trip themselves up by having poor internal communications, or bad coordination between departments, or inadequate follow-through on decisions, or any of a thousand other fundamental management issues that can negate all the positive initiatives those companies undertake.

Don't Talk About It, Be About It.

Creativity is what happens after the strategy is done. Creativity is the process that transforms a strategy into a terrific ad.

Efficiency, Peter said, is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do." - Bob Proctor

Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities, and then to treat them as probabilities.

Bezos is like a chess master playing countless games simultaneously, with the boards organized in such a way that he can efficiently tend to each match.

Bezos liked to say that "good intentions don't work, but mechanisms do.

It's one thing to have a good idea, but it'a another to have confidence in a person to execute it.

He was looking for versatile managers—he called them "athletes"—who could move fast and get big things done.

It's one thing to have a good idea, but it's another to have confidence in a person to execute it,

Uma coisa é ter uma boa ideia; outra é ter confiança em alguém para executá-la", conta.

A leader is paid to do three things: Get the job done and get it done well. Plan ahead—be proactive, not reactive. Exercise good, sound judgment in doing all of the above.

When you have a plan put it into action instantly. Don't let it lie around and get stale and have other people start thinking about it themselves.

But problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.

Harvard Business School Press

Executives are doers; they execute. Knowledge is useless to executives until it has been translated into deeds. But before springing into action, the executive needs to plan his course. He needs to think about desired results, probable restraints, future revisions, check-in points, and implications for how he'll spend his time.