Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.
What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.