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Work implies accountability, a deadline, and finally, the measurement of results, that is, feedback from results on the work. What we measure and how we measure determine what will be considered relevant, and determine, thereby, not just what we see, but what we—and others—do.
The Peter Drucker Collection on Becoming an Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
Improv masters learn like babies: dive in and imitate and improvise first, learn the formal rules later. “At the beginning, your mom didn’t give you a book and say, ‘This is a noun, this is a pronoun, this is a dangling participle,’” Cecchini told me. “You acquired the sound first. And then you acquire the grammar later.”
Le bon gouvernement ne dépend jamais des lois, mais des qualités personnelles de ceux qui gouvernent. La machine gouvernementale est toujours subordonnée à la volonté de ceux qui l’administrent. Il s’ensuit donc que l’élément le plus important de l’art du gouvernement est la méthode selon laquelle les chefs sont choisis.
Dune - Tome 3
Frank Herbert and Michel Demuth
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