{"quotes":[{"text":"Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.","author":"Robert E. Davis","tags":["decision-making","feedback-control","goals","internal-control-systems","itg","management","monitoring","objectives","organizing","planning","policy-enforcement","policy-formation"],"id":49082,"author_id":"Robert+E.+Davis"},{"text":"At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","blood","functioning","hawaii","heart","high","kea","keck","mauna","mental","monitoring","observatory","osha","oxygen","pressure","routine","summit","very","workers"],"id":96278,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"LIVE like someone, somewhere is always monitoring your existence, 'because they are - some wise who are living know all too well that freedom and rest are truly deeded in the mental realm of those blessed to take up residence there - for there is no monitoring system needed from the grave...","author":"Tracey Bond","tags":["blessed","freedom","mental","monitoring","rest","systemization","the-grave"],"id":230471,"author_id":"Tracey+Bond"},{"text":"Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: a project that should never have been built was built, and built badly.","author":"Tim Harford","tags":["accountability","money-management","monitoring","need","outcomes","prestige","project","project-management","quality-of-work"],"id":418202,"author_id":"Tim+Harford"},{"text":"Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. 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