The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

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.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.