Failing Quote by Michael J. Schmoker Download Open image “Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.” — Michael J. Schmoker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Favors Management Reform Substance Symbols
Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable. — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Large-scale reforms usually require either a crisis, which makes them unavoidable, or a framework that builds popular support along with an effective advocate to… — Eswar S Prasad Copy Share Image
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The worth of a politics comes from its application to all, and I think part of why so many have lost faith in politics… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.' — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to avoid the usual fate in politics of failure, you need to understand some basic principles about why people make mistakes… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions. — Michael J. Schmoker Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image
