Improvement Strategy Quotes

How can we get the most from every mistake we make?

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

My defence, that is something I can better at individually.

Finding a better way is all I do.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

I don't ever leave my garage stall during practice. I don't want to know what other people are doing. I don't look at the scoreboard.

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

Failure is all a matter of perspective. Think of all the people you admire. I guarantee you they all failed at one time or another. The key is to recognize setbacks for what they really are-entry points for learning, not validation that you aren't good enough. After a disappointment analyze your actions, get feedback from friends, and take inventory of what you could do better next time. This type of self-reflection and improvement will ultimately make success inevitable.

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.

Goals always come from situations that are not so effective.

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

We have to try to make the game better than it was when we came in.

The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.

Sometimes you change just to do something different, to improve the performance, lift the team.