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Tom Demarco Inspirational Quotes (10)

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Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
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Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
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The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.
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If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.
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The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.
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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.
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There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
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The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
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Computer system analysis is like child-rearing you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
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First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.
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