Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.
Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works.
I'm a big believer in using the best IP for a given application.
Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run
Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now.
When done well, software is invisible.
A good policy badly executed becomes a bad policy.
Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.
You have to see it on a broader level. But you also have to activate it properly.
You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.
I'm not going to put my lot in with economists, because I know if we get it right, if we actually did it right, if we had a president who used all the tools of the presidency, we would design it in such a way that it would be implemented effectively.
Make sure you have a clear understanding of your values and intent, then use technology to enable that. What the tech won't do is compensate for a lack of strategy.
When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.
Good policies need to come with good visions.
I don't think more mega-summits is the way to secure effective implementation.
The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail.
