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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. — William Howard Taft Read more →

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise - Oscar Wilde Read more →

Quote of the Day - Business Runs on Estimated Values

You can't run a credible business or even your own household without knowing your cost basis for the operations for the demand for future expenditures. In the presence of uncertainties in the business and at your house for that cost... Read more →

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Methods and tools are of no use without properly qualified people using a well-defined process, and who are dedicated to satisfying customer needs - in Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering Read more →

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The man who grasps principles can successfully handle his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles is sure to have trouble — Ralph Waldo Emerson So Just Remember ... There is no principle by which you can make... Read more →

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People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.... Read more →

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“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” — Harrington... Read more →

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People don't leave jobs, they leave toxic work cultures - Dr. Amina Aitsi-Selmi Read more →

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“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child... Read more →

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Understanding First Principles is the basis of all understanding - Dr. Kaye Remington, PGCS, Canberra Australia, 14 August 2018 Without first principles, immutable first principles actually, any suggested improvement of anything is just wishful thinking uninformed by any governance, boundary... Read more →

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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. — E. B. White Read more →

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Wrong does not cease to be wrong just because the majority share it - Leo Tolstoy When we hear cockamamie ideas being tossed around and lots of supporters of those ideas, and those ideas are clear violations of established principles... Read more →

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Operational Excellence Through Deliberate Speed! - Mouse Pad text at a National Asset site on my business computer The critical success factor here is deliberate speed. To have deliberate speed we need a Plan that delivers the needed Capabilities, at... Read more →

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But to us, probability is the very guide to life - Bishop Joseph Butler (1756) Read more →

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, (1st law of thermodynamics) so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. ― Norman Cousins Read more →

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The course of conflict is not determined by the person who initiates but by the person who responds. Said by Duncan, in the third episode, "Silent Symphony" of the first season of the Amazon series "Mozart in the Jungle" and... Read more →

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Expert judgment is typically the crux of cost and schedule estimates but in the spectrum of the risk management process, quantification of expert judgment is the weakest area - Fred Raymond, Acquistion Review Quarterly - Spring 199., pp. 147-154 Making... Read more →

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I am used to thinking three to four months in advance, about what I must do, and I calculate for the worse. If I take so many precautions it is because it is my custom to leave nothing to chance... Read more →

Quote of the Day - Risk Pre-Mortem

A risk management premortem is an approach where the project manager and project stakeholders envision a future where the project has failed, and then work backward to determine the story and circumstances that could have led to the project failure... Read more →

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If a profession is to sharpen its skills, to develop new skills and applications, and to gain increasing respect and credibility, then theory and practice must be closely related – Martin Shrub Process and Practices without Principles are of little... Read more →