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Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships by ThrustVectoring on Monday August 28, 2017 @03:41PM (#15119436)
Your culture is what you actually reward and punish, not the abstract ideals that you talk about.
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Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships by robotresearcher on Monday August 28, 2017 @07:54PM (#15121126)
There's a great aphorism with similar meaning:

People do what you inspect, not what you expect.

edit: Wikiquote attributes to Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (IBM) but earlier instances can be found (see comments below).

Lovely bit of language.

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Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships by dctoedt on Monday August 28, 2017 @07:57PM (#15121143)
That's an old nuclear-Navy saying from at least as early as the 1970s: You get what you INspect, not what you EXpect.
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Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships by robotresearcher on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:03PM (#15121162)
Earliest citation I could find is a management book from 1962:

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/you_...

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