As a captain here, I will not do anything malicious to delay a flight as some have suggested elsewhere. However, my personal on-time perfomance is fairly bad I'm sure due to flying the way the FAR's, books, and safety dictate. There are things we should be doing that aren't wrong to do. Such as study your FOM and find interesting tidbits of information that most of us do not follow in an effort to be on time. "By the book" operating is the professional and moral way to operate as a pilot...check out FOM 13-9, first paragraph-bottom section, that one sentance in chp 13 would send on time performance down 30%...I do not do anything maliciously, just simply try to do my best to fly safely, by the rules set forth from the FAA and company, and then on time performance enters my mind. #1.SAFETY, #2.COMPLIANCE, then ON-TIME. Some of us get those priorities all mixed up...if you fly correctly and professionally (ie. not wink and nod at ops specs and just "make it happen") some things take care of themselves. Chp 4-14 bottom section would knock out a lot of other guys operating illegally-ever take an antihistimine while operating with a cold? Zyrtec? medication Did you know you have to take anti-biotics for at least 48hrs before returning to work? Open the door and brief the 20% of flights that have no working headset for pushback. If it's broken, write it up regardless of what it is (spoilerons fault anyone?) or where it happens. Guys, just do it right and a lot of this will take care of itself.