Quote 9 : Minority of one

“Being a minority, even a minority of one, does not make you mad.”
George Orwell

Quote 8 : What Customers Really Want

“We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want, not what we think they should want.”
Eric Ries

Quote 7 : Good to Great

“Indeed, one of the crucial element in taking a company from good to great is somewhat paradoxical. You need executives, on the one hand, who argue and debate -sometimes violently- in pursuit of best answers, yet, on the other hand, who unify fully behind a decision, regardless of parochial interests.”
Jim Collins

Quote 6: Improvement is a Change

“Any improvement is a Change.
Not every change is an improvement but certainly every improvement is a change.”
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Quote 5: Modelling

“Without modelling, we might think we are learning to think holistically when we are actually learning to jump to conclusions.”
Peter M. Senge

Quote 4: Bad Idea

“Both ideas and execution are important. There is no effect time way to implement a bad idea.”
Ronald J. Baker

Quote 3: Probabilities

Probabilities – “One winter night during one of the many German air raids on Moscow in World War II, a distinguished Soviet professor of statistics showed up in his local air-raid shelter. He had never appeared there before. “There are seven million people in Moscow”, he used to say. “Why should I expect them to hit me?” His friends were astonished to see him and asked what happened to change his mind. “Look”, he explained, “there are seven million people in Moscow and one elephant. Last night they got the elephant.” […]. /n What the professor experience really illuminates, is the dual character that runs throughout everything to do with probability: past frequencies can collide with degrees of belief when risky choices must be made.”
Peter L. Bernstein

Quote 2: Changing Ideas

“The most effective way of changing ideas is not from outside by conflict but from within by the insight rearrangement of available information.”
Edward de Bono

Quote 1: Time Pressure

“People under time pressure don’t work better; they just work faster.”
Tom DeMarco