There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
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.
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.
The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.