Sarah Talib

"Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures." ~ W Edwards Deming

He that thinketh he leadeth when no one is following, is merely taking a walk. John C Maxwell

وقعنا مذكرة تفاهم بين اللجنة العليا للتحول الحكومي الرقمي وبين شركتي مايكروسوفت وبي دبليو سي الشرق الأوسط لتأسيس "مركز الإمارات للتميز الرقمي الحكومي"، بهدف دعم التحوّل الرقمي الحكومي، وتمكين المؤسسات الحكومية من الاستفادة من أفضل الممارسات العالمية وأحدث التقنيات لتعزيز رقمنة الخدمات والأعمال والعمليات الحكومية ورفع الجاهزية الرقمية لحكومة دولة الامارات..

I was wrong. It is much simpler. Finance has one single rule: never talk to idiots.

Are your organization’s suite of KPIs keeping your people interested, informed, involved and inspired? via @Marwan_Janahi

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. @nntaleb

Plan A: illusion of certainty. Plan B-Z: the certainty of illusion.

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools” - Sir William Francis Butler

"If doubt is the weapon, detail is the ammunition." @TimHarford

"مدير لا يقود :- يحبط فريق العمل. و قائد لا يدير :- لا يعرف ما يدور". “Managers who don’t lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don’t manage don’t know what’s going on”. Henry Mintzberg الادارة #القيادة# #Mintzberg

"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus." - Turkish proverb

“...authority only works as long as you trust that someone smarter than you is making the rules...” @AshAmbirge

Mediterraneans scorn instructions but bow to authority; Anglo-Saxons bow to instructions but scorn authority. #BedofProcrustes, 3rd Ed.

The cental rule in life is that it is much, much better to panic early than late.

“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” ~ #WEdwardsDeming #QOTD

نفتش عن قادة يحركون الجبال .. ويقودون التغيير .. ويصنعون المستقبل .. همتهم في السماء .. وطموحاتهم معانقة النجوم ..

"I had come to see in this ability to wait without apparent expectation a kind of profound despair" #Page117 #bibliophile @katherinezoepf

@xvamyx @NadaAlZarooni @Arshh_ali @CareemUAE @Eman_AlMadani @EhsanF_87 @incehassan @SarahIsEffy I second the Britney Spears reaction.

@Munaaldhabbah بالبركة دكتورة! منها للأعلى يا رب!