Monday, December 11, 2006

Pearls before…

With only a few weeks to go till the end of the calendar year – boy did it go fast! – I thought I’d share some quotes that I had stockpiled for the right occasion and just never got around to using.

Someone once taught me that everything we do must be done to perfection; it’s just that we can’t do everything.

Think on it, And think of the number of times you have felt you have taken on too much. Sometimes you feel obligated by relationship; other times it’s a sense of accountability; and often we feel pushed or forced.  The problem is too often good intentions become poor performance and poor performance leads to eroding relationships and the very reason we got into the fix in the first place –relationships – become the first casualty.

What to do – maybe follow the words of the famous philosopher……

“You never eat more than you can lift”
Miss Piggy

What do you think?

Posted by David on 12/11 at 01:50 PM
(3) Comments • Permalink

  1. I say quality over quantity any day. I'd rather those swine cast truffles before us. With wine, naturally :)

    Posted by Ro Vedant  on  2006-12-11 21:29:56

  2. "Don't Set Unrealistic Deadlines - It is a foregone conclusion that an impossible deadline will not be met. All you'll succeed in doing is demoralize your team, create distrust, cause people to quit, and get the client angry. If you think they'll be angry if you tell them it'll take three weeks longer than they have before you start, just think how angry they'll be if you miss your deadline by three weeks." - Zen and the Art of Project Management, Presentation, 1990.

    Posted by Glenn White  on  2006-12-12 03:11:30

  3. Swine casting truffels!!!! Love it -- what an image

    Posted by David Sable  on  2006-12-15 13:58:46

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