Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.
Objectives Quotes
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.
A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
Integrity and honesty, not objectivity and certainty, are the highest virtues to which the theological enterprise can aspire. From this perspective, all human claims to possess objectivity, certainty, or infallibility are revealed as nothing but the weak and pitiable pleas of frantically insecure people who seek to live in a illusion because reality has proved […]
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
The objective of all dedicated employees should be to thoroughly analyze all situations, anticipate all problems prior to their occurrence, have answers for these problems, and move swiftly to solve these problems when called upon. However, When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remind yourself your initial objective was […]
I walk into the Oval Office in the morning, and ask Card: “what’s in the newspapers worth worrying about?” I glance at the headlines just to kind of (get) a flavor of what’s moving. I rarely read the stories… I get briefed by people who have probably read the news themselves… the best way to […]
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
