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“In terms of biological systems, efficiency is a matter of life or death. And the same is true in terms of business systems.”

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“In order to fully embrace ESG standards, businesses need to think holistically about their entire value web.”

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Book:Business Essentials

Source: Business Essentials

“From a systems design and capacity sharing perspective — sometimes facilitating access to resources is better than facilitating ownership of resources.”

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“From a systems design and distribution perspective, we should put more emphasis on commodities than on products. This is how nature works — an economy where commodities are easily accessible and easily convertible into products.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The true potential of additive manufacturing is not with industry but with individuals. Instead of a system where giant factories manufacture products in mass then ship them on giant boats planes and trucks all around the earth just so a bunch of individuals each get a few things they ordered… we'll have a system where product designs are instantly sold purchased or licensed and manufactured instantly in millions of tiny factories in a decentralized network of production and consumption.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension. It is to "get" at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny.”

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Book:Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Source: Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“We figure out the purpose or function of a system from the way it behaves, not from our expectations or the purpose the system says it has.”

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“As it grows, every system exhibits self-reinforcing behavior.”

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Book:Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

Source: Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully

“The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, for if that fails the chain fails and the object that it has been holding up falls to the ground.”

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Book:Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

Source: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

“It’s only gotten to the point where it’s easier for us to imagine the destruction of the world than the changing of our economic system”

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Book:The Easy Chain

Source: The Easy Chain