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.
The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.
First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.
Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.
Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.