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…the key to quickly sizing up the organization’s progress and deciding where to spend scarce resources is by keeping the evaluation process as simple as possible.
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…the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier – or not – is the genuine commitment and active involvement of the person in charge.
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The best way to deploy these highly skilled individuals… was to give them clear objectives and then leave them alone to accomplish their brainy work however they saw fit. – Peter Drucker
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…the twenty-first century will require a commitment to finding approaches to knowledge work that can generate much better returns.
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Once we… start systematically rethinking how we work, we’ll inevitably create short-term inconvenience on our way to long-term improvement.
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In business, good is not the same as easy, and fulfilling is not the same as convenient.
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Don’t let things fall through the cracks, and if you commit to doing something by a certain time, hit the deadline, or explain why you need to shift it.
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A good production process… should minimize both ambiguity about what’s going on and the amount of unscheduled communication required to accomplish the work.
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A key idea driving agile project management is that humans are naturally pretty good at planning.
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There is a limit to how many [task] boards you can manage before the upkeep becomes too arduous.
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