Quotes About Execution

En dan, anderen zouden het wel in mijn plaats ordenen. Anderen zouden wel handelend beginnen optreden. De anderen waren immers zo, steeds iets bewerkstelligend, steeds handelend aan het optreden. Ik kwam achterna, en voerde uit wat mij bevolen werd. Ik leefde als het ware niet in dit drukke en te zenuwachtige leven, maar bij dingen die voorbij waren, en die ik nu pas in mijn geest begon te ordenen.

So, execution is really the critical part of a successful strategy. Getting it done, getting it done right, getting it done better than the next person is far more important than dreaming up new visions of the future.

E xecution—getting the task done, making it happen—is the most unappreciated skill of an effective business leader.

envisioning System/360 was one thing. Making it a reality required the equivalent of a man-on-the-moon program. It cost nearly as much. Tom Watson's memoir noted that the investment required—$5 billion (that's 1960s dollars!)—was larger than what the Manhattan Project cost.

He'd once heard a judge say the most humane way to execute a prisoner was to tell him he was free. Then kill him. Gamache had struggled against that, argued against it, railed against it. Then finally, exhausted, had come to believe it.

So you tell me... did this execution really make you feel safer? Did it bring us all closer together? Or did it drive us further apart?

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker said it all when he remarked, I can give you a six-word formula for success: Thnk things through-then follow through.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." Stick to the good plan. Traditional

Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical.

most people overrate decision making, and they underrate decision managing.

Predetermine a course of action. Lay out your goals. Adjust your priorities. Notify key personnel. Allow time for acceptance. Head into action. Expect problems. Always point to the successes.

Thinking divorced from actions cannot be productive.

distinct vision, a precise plan, plenty of resources, and incredible leadership, but if you don't have the right people, you're not going to get anywhere.

Napoleon Hill said, "It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing right now that counts.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.

Leaders who have reached the top of their profession or the top of their organization cannot take anything for granted. No matter how good they've been in the past, they still need to strategize, weigh decisions, plan, and execute at a high level.

Ideas have a short half-life: if you don't put them to action, they die off.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date

Willa A. Foster commented, "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

GIVE PEOPLE AN ACTION PLAN

know how" to "do now.

While trying is filled with good intentions, doing is the result of intentional living.

to act on what you learn is all that really matters.

The solution is to develop a bias for action. Don't think, Can I? Instead think, How can I?