Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.
Interpretation
Good ideas require active effort and persistence to be successfully implemented and maintained.
This quote by Hyman Rickover emphasizes the importance of not just having good ideas but also the necessity of transforming those ideas into action. It highlights that even after implementation, one must continually nurture and advocate for these ideas, as they can easily fall victim to neglect or opposition if not actively supported.
In practice
In a business meeting to encourage team members to pursue innovative projects.
Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.
What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.
The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.
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