“The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitalization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization’s digitization journey increases.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Gaining an in-depth understanding of business capabilities helps today’s business leaders craft good strategy and implement it effectively.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“There are two sets of business capabilities: Competitive necessity and competitive uniqueness.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Embracing investment strategies with less complexity provides a golden opportunity to enhance the value of the investment profession rather than condemn it to obsolescence.”
Source: Investing in U.S. Financial History: Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future
“IMPAIRMENT: Lacking part or all of…or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body
DISABILITY: The disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organization which takes no or little account of people who have physical [and/or cognitive/developmental/mental] impairments and thus excludes them from the mainstream of society.
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Source: Disability Studies Today
“One of the outstanding features of Vanni society was the degree of integration of disabled people into the mainstream. They could be seen actively participating in many spheres, carrying out work with grit and amazing agility. People with one arm would ride motorbikes with heavy loads behind them on their motorbikes. You would hardly have known that some people you worked with were missing a leg from below the knee. Disability had been normalized. Serving these people was the only prosthetic-fitting service in Vanni, Venpuraa. This also expanded its service with the introduction of new technology. A common phrase one heard even prior to the Mullivaikaal genocide was about so and so having a piece of shrapnel in some part of their body. Many people lived with such pieces in their body and suffered varying degrees of pain as a result. Visiting medical experts did their best to remove the ones causing the most severe pain.”
Source: A Fleeting Moment in My Country: The Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State
“The task of the modern individual is to move appropriately and effectively from disengaged spectator to attentive perceiver in order to slide easily into the social order. The starer, in contrast, is an undisciplined spectator arrested in an earlier developmental stage or one resistant to the attentiveness of the modern networker. The starer is a properly attentive spectator befuddled, halted in mid-glance, mobility throttled, processing checked, network run amuck...So the challenge of proper looking is converting the impulse to stare into attention, which is socially acceptable. (21-22)”
“We are remarkably primitive, compared to Um-Helat. Time flows the same in both worlds, but people there have not wasted themselves on crushing one another into submission, and this makes a remarkable difference.”
Source: How Long 'til Black Future Month?
“In the most devilishly wicked learning environments, experience will reinforce the exact wrong lessons. Hogarth noted a famous New York City physician renowned for his skill as a diagnostician. The man’s particular specialty was typhoid fever, and he examined patients for it by feeling around their tongues with his hands. Again and again, his testing yielded a positive diagnosis before the patient displayed a single symptom. And over and over, his diagnosis turned out to be correct. As another physician later pointed out, “He was a more productive carrier, using only his hands, than Typhoid Mary.” Repetitive success, it turned out, taught him the worst possible lesson.”
Source: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World