Operations Quotes

“Leaders need to know how the system works to be able to make effective decisions about changing the system or adjusting its operations.”
― Chris Hutchinson, Ripple: A Field Manual for Leadership that Works

“Great leaders do not own the "think different" label; they operationalize it.”
― Dan Perryman

“It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one’s judgement.”
― Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle

“There is no such thing as a minor operation. Any opening, incision, cut, gash or puncture in the human body not put there by God is a blasphemy and a major disaster.”
― Samuel Taylor, Sabrina Fair

“All operations may fail and collapse if exists still the lack of equal rights, justice, respect, and love. Open that lack, to win the heart and mind since that prevails.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The goal of diversity shouldn't instigate divisive activity. Beauty brand communications shouldn't angle to create perceptive complexity, rhetorical and associative programming touts beauty as skin deep (all skin inclusive) keep it simple. It seems as though the advertising trend for marketers this 2017 year, is to risk the social media lightning rodded scorn of public outrage. As a virtual publicist, it seems like I am speaking more about the necessity of crisis communication planning, more than standard communication for brands as a matter of good business operations & reputation management.”
― Tracey Bond

“Budget for better business operations to avoid basement-bargaining another's skill and brilliance...that's a dead end detour toward business excellence.”
― Tracey Bond

“Note that there is not a focus on eliminating failures. Systems without failures, although robust, become brittle and fragile. When failures occur, it is more likely that the teams responding will be unprepared, and this could dramatically increase the impact of the incident.”
― Laine Campbell, Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

“The threefold marks of great leadership include dwellings in the fortress, naming operations, and building things that didn't exist before or making them better”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Your job as an entrepreneur or executive or project creator is to set things in motion, not do it all yourself!”
― Richie Norton

“Operational art is what military staffs do to support tactics and strategy.”
― B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

“A broken process will beat a brilliant person every time.”
― Mark Skalla, The Leverage Point: How Smart Founders Stop Doing Everything & Start Achieving Anything

“Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.”
― General Omar Bradley, Greatest Battles of World War II

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
― W. Edwards Deming, 50 Business Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management and strategy