Quotes About Execution

My business partner Warren Adams and I formed our company WalkRunFly as part of what felt like a logical progression: if you want to execute things to your satisfaction, then you want to have as much control as you can. That leads to helping create work for others, not just yourself.

I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

400 mutineers were hanged simultaneously, while British officers seated beneath sipped whiskies and sodas and regimental bands played.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

I wish you to place your division across this road, and I wish you to get there

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes—picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and conducting operations.

Execution requires a comprehensive understanding of a business, its people, and its environment.

Organizations don't execute unless the right people, individually and collectively, focus on the right details at the right time.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questioning, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

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Execution not only ensures efficient use of resources in a credit and cash-starved world, but also provides the feedback loop needed for the business to adjust to changes—big or small—in the external world.

A leader of the business knows what to do. A leader of people knows how to get it done.

Execution, when first published in 2002, was based on our observation that the discipline of getting things done was what differentiated companies that succeeded from those that just muddled through or failed.

the company that executes well will have the confidence, speed, and resources to move fast as new opportunities emerge. It will also have credibility as a partner, supplier, and investment of choice, compounding its advantage as it positions itself for growth.

The heart of execution lies in the three core processes: the people process, the strategy process, and the operations process.

Execution is what gives you an edge in detecting new realities in the external environment as well as risks that are being introduced, perhaps inadvertantly, to your own operations.

The more reps you get, the more you calm down and the less thinking you're doing. Then you just go out and play.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.