Decision making Quote by Michael O'Rielly

Allowing staff to dictate frameworks and policy outcomes without appropriate checks by elected leaders has corrosive effects.

— Michael O'Rielly

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

— Jocko Willink

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or…

— John C. Calhoun

Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators…

— Jerome Powell

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots…

— Demosthenes

“By creating a Circle of Safety around the people in the organization, leadership reduces the threats people feel inside the group, which frees them…

— Simon Sinek

I think the thing that I learned is I will never let a staff have too much control again, which is a strong statement.

— Mack Brown

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced…

— Thomas Jefferson

“without control over the physical environment, no collection of administrative, technical, or logical access controls can provide adequate security. If a malicious person can…

— James M. Stewart

People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level…

— Peace Pilgrim

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

— Lech Walesa

At the enterprise level, businesses have the talent and budget to create and enforce policies that prevent staffers from installing things themselves.

— Jeff Duntemann