Quotes About Execution

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn't likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change—the paralyzing part—is precisely in the details.

marry your long-term goal with short-term critical moves.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count.

to marry your long-term goal with short-term critical moves.

The Combat Maneuver Training Center, the unit in charge of military simulations, recommends that officers arrive at the Commander's Intent by asking themselves two questions: If we do nothing else during tomorrow's mission, we must _________________. The single, most important thing that we must do tomorrow is ________________.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Leadership is about doing the right things; management is about doing those things in the right way.

What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.

the purpose of the finally block is to contain cleanup code that should always be executed, the compiler will flag an error if you place a return statement inside a finally block. An

Practically all knowledge resolves itself into four forms: the knowledge of what to do, how to do, and when to do, and of what not to do.

It's not important to protect an idea. It's important to protect the time it takes to make it real. You

It's that ideas are easier to come up with than you think. What's hard — really hard— is moving from an idea to reality.

It's not important to protect an idea. It's important to protect the time it takes to make it real.

But if you are going to do something properly you have to plan ahead or you will end up cutting the moment wrong. Then events will be all wrinkled and puckered.

Francoism constitutes the most significant and enduring "Western" example of how European polities, societies and "nations" of the mid twentieth century came to be reconstructed through violence – through the large-scale execution and mass imprisonment of compatriots.

extra judicial murder (the ley de fugas – prisoners "shot while escaping")

the death squads came, by night to "take out" of gaol in the deadly sacas, exactly the same form of extrajudicial execution that ended the lives of her two brothers and of tens of thousands of others across Spain.

Amnesty's investigation into the judicial processes of the hundred or so governments that impose the death sentence (the United States and Turkey are the only NATO countries that continue to execute) has revealed that without exception, the penalty of death is disproportionately meted out to "the poor, the powerless, the marginalized or those whom repressive governments deem it expedient to eliminate. No government gets it right.

together, and in Russia. Ekaterinburg was their Calvary.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

The greatest deed in war is the speediest end of that war, and every means to that end must remain open.