Quotes About Execution

We cannot empathize this enough: sustaining improvements begins with proper planning, followed by proper execution and management.

the value stream map looks at the high level activities that transform a request into some sort of deliverable . . . the purpose of value stream mapping is to design a strategic improvement plan that will be executed over a period of time; it's not designed to address problems at a detailed level

But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

In short: Write the way people think. Nike knew what it was doing when it coined the slogan "Just do it." Grammatically, this phrase makes no sense. Your high-school English teacher would scold the copywriter for not being clear about the antecedent for "it.

A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy

be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.

Success requires action, and action requires thought. But

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." —Alan Lakein

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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Small plans at best yield small results, and big plans at worst beat small plans.

A brilliant strategy, blockbuster product, or breakthrough technology can put you on the competitive map, but only solid execution can keep you there.

The four building blocks that managers can use to improve strategy execution—decision rights, information, structure, and motivators—are inextricably linked.

Every one strengthens one or more of the building blocks executives can use to improve their strategy-execution capability: clarifying decision rights, improving information, establishing the right motivators, and restructuring the organization. The

As long as companies continue to attack their execution problems primarily or solely with structural or motivational initiatives, they will continue to fail. As we've seen, they may enjoy short-term results, but they will inevitably slip back into old habits because they won't have addressed the root causes of failure.

Employees at three out of every five companies rated their organization weak at execution

Execution is the result of thousands of decisions made every day by employees acting according to the information they have and their own self-interest.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Each sorcerer has his own connections with the forces of wyrd. In the execution of the shapes subtleties, allusions and personal secrets are revealed. Once you have mastered the copying skill, you will develop your own style and in time your knife will

Obs were mediums and necromancers condemned by Torah, the Law of God. They were to be executed by the state for their spiritually heinous activity of consulting the dead and divining spirits. In Philistia, such activities were not outlawed as they were in Israel, but were rather encouraged. The Ob's residence stood on the outskirts of the city near the foothills, because of the spiritual nature of mountains as cosmic connections between heaven and earth, and as gateways to Sheol.

Just as tasks should have a cancellation policy, threads should have an interruption policy.

A class is thread-safe if it behaves correctly when accessed from multiple threads, regardless of the scheduling or interleaving of the execution of those threads by the runtime environment, and with no additional synchronization or other coordination on the part of the calling code.

When I see a nail, I reach for a hammer. They study the nail and obsess over whether it might actually be, or could possibly be turned into, a bolt or a screw, and then they try playing mind games. As often as not, the nail screws them.