Thursday, January 10, 2008

Methods versus Results

The best advice I ever heard was this:

If you want to achieve desirable results sometimes you have to employ undesirable methods. Who said doing what was right was easy. It never is.

Pleasant easy to swallow nice politically correct methods yields semi effective, or worse ineffective results.

Pleasing methods most of the time yeilds unpleasing results.

If it was easy, ANYONE COULD DO IT.

Unpleasant Methods many times yields pleasant results.

If process is your goal, results never come, if results is your goal, process is only a vehicle to get there, not the objective.

Form follows function. Talk is cheap, but it takes money to buy whiskey.
Steers try - bulls get results.

So, in the end the question is: is your goal desired results or desirable methods. One leads to resolution, one leads to confusion.

Just a review of some sound thinking. Thanks to Clair Hudson RIP 1991

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