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We can’t make new commitments to other people when we don’t even know what our commitments are now!”
“People who struggle with kaizen do so not because the steps are hard but because they are easy. They can’t overcome the cultural training that says change must always be instantaneous, it must always require steely self-discipline, and it must never be pleasurable.”
― One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
― One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
“Too many production systems are like Schrodinger’s cat—locked inside a box, with no way to observe its actual state.”
― Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
― Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
“what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight. It is essential that the critic should keep himself constantly aware of that fact.”
― Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
― Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
“Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.”
― Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
― Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
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