Evaluation Quote by Andy Hargreaves

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

— Thomas Sowell

One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when…

— Ernest Sosa

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our…

— Anonymous

“Incompetent people are, at most, 1% of the problem. The other 99% are good people trying to do a good job who make very…

— Lucien Leape

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.

— W. Edwards Deming

Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time.

— Ralph C. Smedley

Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency…

— Donald Knuth

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

— Orrin Woodward

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

— Bill Mollison

One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which…

— Joshua Reynolds

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

— Gretchen Rubin

“Strong processes with measurable outcomes eliminate bureaucracy and expose underperformers.”

— John Rossman