Disappointing Quotes - Page 12

• ...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  Technology, Starting Over, Use

  "Reengineering work: don't automate, obliterate". Harvard Business Review, Volume 68, No.4, pp. 104, 1990.

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• What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reality, Clothes, Would Be

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Length, Great Things

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• If he's not calling you, it's because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn't follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he's okay with disappointing you.

  Greg Behrendt

  Expectations, Mind, Calling

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.

  Andy Murray

  Worry, Messages, Unfair

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