David Cote

“Three Principles of Short- and Long-Term Performance 1.​Scrub accounting and business practices down to what is real. 2.​Invest in the future, but not excessively. 3.​Grow while keeping fixed costs constant.”
― David Cote, Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term

“had been impressed with a software development technique called CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integrated). CMMI ranked how mature software development processes at an organization were on a 1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the best. A level 1 development process was “unpredictable, poorly controlled, and reactive,” while a level 5 process was well organized, well understood, and focused on continuous improvement.3 With a level 5 process, you had a robust, documented development procedure in place that minimized errors and enabled the entire organization to learn from errors so as not to repeat them.”
― David Cote, Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term