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You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.
In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.
As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.
Execute their airy purposes.
Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies - what we'll call "geeks" for the rest of the book (deal with it) - we're a creative lot who don't like to be told what to do.
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'.
Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
What kind of FBI agent are you?
You [the employees] are involved in a crusade.
An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them
Custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.
They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor.
When placed in command, take charge.
We manage what we monitor.
Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.
program." "If I'm wrong, I'll expel myself." I hate you. "Thank you. Thank you very
Strategy is a system of expedients
The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.
A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.
Systems run the business and people run the systems.
Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.
They were in charge of the privilege of staying and the joy of firing.
I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
Give what You command and command what You will.
System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.
I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company.
We lead people, but we manage things.
Being an executive doesn't require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrowing schedules.
A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.
The insolence of office.
Maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut.
Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.
Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.
What does an administrative assistant do? I wondered.
He that staies does the businesse.
I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.
There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who supervises the supervisors themselves?
We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.
Establish your system of control to see that your team does there job
Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.
But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.
At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.
As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before - are steadily tightening the screws, they feel more and more that they get to call the shots.
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.
Management has to be where the action is.
Editors, huh? By golly ... you're right. They're everywhere. What is this place? Heaven?
Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.
Expirience is the oracle of truth
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Manager! Have brain - use it!
Many thinkers worry over the progressive bureaucratization of the world and the social threat of its terror. Yet they forget that these very bureaucrats are themselves terrorized, and that they are terrorized by their desks. Once plunked down behind one, a man will never learn to tear himself free.
A meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.
Network administrators all share an abiding and passionate desire for one thing: We want our users to shut up.
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.
The job was invented in order to make things easier for those at the top.
In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
Either an executive can do his job or he can't.
Software engineers are sneaky bastards when it comes to data management.
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
It's management's job to know.
Managers are the most creative people in the world.
Programmers are Tiny Gods
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.
You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.
I always love that 'we' part from a staff officer.
Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people
When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'
Instruction is the Intelligence that programs all creation.
When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.
Vivi stood and crumpled the report. "Who's the CEO at Slakerian?"
"Jakes Echabarne," her assistant said, not glancing at any notes.
"Arrange a meeting." No one messed around with Hunting4TrueLove, whether she held the reins or not.
Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.
Intelligence is the lifeblood of the company
So, Lord Auditor Coz. Did you find some fun?
Do I look cheerful?
More like manic.
It's a joy, Ivan, an absolute joy. The ImpSec internal Security system is lying to me.
Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.
Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me.
We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.
Chapter 5-"Now THAT'S Leverage" discusses the idea of "software leverage," where reusing components results in greater impact. We see how the use of shell scripts achieves a high degree of leverage.
Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.
Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right.
What you can't enforce, do not command.
In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
I'm a process server, so I have to wear a suit.
EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.