Who said eat dessert first

As importantly, from an operations perspective, is that the quote the neatly captures two really important concepts in planning, namely:. Years ago, I had an on-going discussion with a colleague about the importance of uncertainty in any model.

The topic was about how likely it was to achieve a plan generated by a model. Think of likelihood as a measure of the accuracy of a plan.

It turns out that the likelihood is scarily small, and gets smaller as the time horizon expands. They should know and develop different competencies and skills. We all need to plan. That the plan is not percent accurate is not the problem. The fundamental problem is that we behave as if the plan is percent correct. How silly is that?! If we know that the plan is never percent correct, why behave as if it is? Clearly Ernestine Ulmer would argue that uncertainty is a fact of life. But uncertainty was always there whether for demand, capacity, quality, supply, lead time, or any number of other factors that go into the models used to create plans for our companies.

Complexity and volatility only exacerbate the fact that the model is inaccurate and therefore the plan is inaccurate.

This is a very important shift to recognize the importance and value of being able to detect quickly when and where the plan does not intersect with real life, and then be able to respond quickly and profitably. Because you're the boss. I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first. I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends.

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Food , Weight Loss , Hands. Barbara Johnson Positive , Meat , Pleasure. Wendy Mass. Did she write a cookbook? Did she run in a frequently quoted circle ala Dorothy Parker? In conclusion, Arthur Murray deserves credit for this joke based on the citation although the statement was not in proverbial form. Leopold Fechtner published the same joke in The phrasing evolved, and the proverb was circulating by May Ernestine Ulmer received credit by , but that date was rather late.

The image has been resized. Great thanks to Andrew Steinberg whose inquiry led QI to formulate this question and perform this exploration. Also, many thanks to researcher Barry Popik for his pioneering exploration of this topic. Popik found citations beginning in March Skip to content.

Ernestine Ulmer? Arthur Murray?