“Een indicator wordt verbeterd, terwijl het eigenlijke doel uit het oog wordt verloren. Dit noem ik indicatorisme.”
Source: De meetmaatschappij
“KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are arbitrary numbers that make you feel productive. It’s corporate astrology: you stare at charts and dashboards, interpret the signs, and declare, “We’re growing!” while quietly ignoring the fact that revenue is flat. If you’re hitting all your KPIs and still not growing, they’re just three letters that make you feel busy while you slowly fail.”
Source: Chaos.: Where dreams, disasters, and money collide.
“Digital organizations today have to strike the right balance of being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to make a leap.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“First, measure the right things, and then measure them right.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“People do what you inspect, not what you expect.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“Keep in mind, measurement is not just numbers, but stories.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“In order to achieve flow, that thing has to be CHALLENGING enough to occupy your whole brain. All of your capacities. So you're fully immersed in that activity. [...]
A lot of people are doing things that they don't enjoy in the moment and they're not finding it challenging or fulfilling in a good way. It might be so challenging or so hard that they give up, or they don't know what they're doing, or they're just bored [because it's not challenging enough]. Those are all going to be unfulfilling achievement activities. [...]
In order to get that intrinsic enjoyment of the activity it has to have, built into it, baked into the activity... it has to be challenging enough. [...]
Growing itself is enjoyable [because it's challenging].”
“Very soon the heavens presented an extraordinary appearance, for all the stars directly behind me were now deep red, while those directly ahead were violet. Rubies lay behind me, amethysts ahead of me.”
Source: Star Maker
“It is always worth it to rise to a challenge as happiness is often the result.”
Source: Flappy: The Pigeon Who Overcame Bullying. From Zero To Hero!
“Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.”
Source: The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus