Michael Gerber Quotes

Corporations want stable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain systems.

We closely track the systems Boeing builds for us, and they're some very capable systems. So that's been my focus. It is something that I look at every month. I look at the metrics for all major combat systems and our platforms, which Boeing builds many, and they're successful platforms.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.

This is the system that we have. I didn’t make the system. This is the system that we have.

Whether we win 60 games or not, you build your habits back and get better that way. It may not be 60 wins, but you get better as a team.

If we focus on processes, the results will automatically take care of themselves.

Part of the process is always, 'Is there a better way?' We try to think through if there's something we can do better creatively or technically, or just is more efficient.

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

I always try to find better ways to do things. Whether it's a game plan, a practice, a meeting, an interview, whatever it is. I'm going to find a way to find a way to analyze it and find a better way to do it. That's my mindset. I've never been satisfied with anything. That's just my mindset. I'm always trying to find a better way to do things.

I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

Every day, I'm journaling and making sure things I do wrong I change or try to fix and make better and things I do right I continue to do those more often.

We are constantly reviewing our processes to identify areas where we can learn and improve.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

It is extremely hard to break bad habits and takes a long time to start new, healthy ones.

If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.

There's a lot of buzz words in the business world these days - Design thinking, innovation, fast-failure, disruption, cross-functional leadership - and at the heart of every one of these concepts is the ability for people to make small moves forward, learn, iterate.

I'm going to keep innovating.

Pugs are creatures of habit.

When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.