There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.
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.
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.