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Conrad Hollomon
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“It is hard to realize today that “government” during the American Civil War a hundred years ago meant the merest handful of people. Lincoln’s Secretary of War had fewer than fifty civilian subordinates, most of them not “executives” and policy-makers but telegraph clerks. The entire Washington establishment of the U.S. government in Theodore Roosevelt’s time, around 1900, could be comfortably housed in any one of the government buildings along the Mall today.”
― The Effective Executive
― The Effective Executive
“When faced with a new opportunity or a problem to be solved, our human instinct is to jump straight to a solution without adequately exploring the problem space, testing the assumptions inherent in the proposed solution, or challenging ourselves to validate the solution with real users.”
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
― Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean
“Where is the integrity in telling the team they “must have all this done by this date” when you haven’t asked the team if it is even possible?”
― Agile Culture, The: Leading through Trust and Ownership
― Agile Culture, The: Leading through Trust and Ownership
“Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.”
― The Effective Executive
― The Effective Executive
“Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not
fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common
prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the
thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman
who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his
death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can
give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike
upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common
prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the
thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman
who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his
death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can
give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike
upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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