“The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.” IdeasReasonBeliefBusinessConflictDiversityTradeMeetingsComparisonCustomsSuperstitionsRivalsBegetsCrossroadsAttrition Book:The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization Source: The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization
“Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"” WorldYearsWellsThreeAsksIndividualSocialReligiousSimpleBusinessConflictYears AgoOrganizationThirdsAffairManageBiosphereYear OneDisarray Author:Dee Hock
“Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?” IfsMenDesireInterestViewsBusinessConflictDestructionTradePracticalsIrrationalConflict Of InterestPersonal Desire Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.” BusinessGreaterConflictHarderTriumphBloggingInspirational PresidentialInspiring Presidential Author:George Washington
“In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.” WorldTwoWarStatesPresidentUnitedBusinessUnited StatesCenturyMilitaryConflictRoseFinancialOilWar Of The WorldsExpensiveShockDozenPanic20th CenturyFluResignationRecessionsEpidemicsBuffetsTwo Worlds Author:Warren Buffett
“If you're not listening, you're not learning.” IfsBusinessListeningConflictConflict Resolution Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.” PeopleWayDecisionBusinessCompanyConflictOvercomingCurseInnovativeAmbiguityVacuumsOrganisationRail Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.” WayNeedsTodayOpportunityCommunityBusinessEconomyEnvironmentConflictMessagesProfitRight ThingReconcileNew Opportunity Author:Al Gore
“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?” IfsWorldShouldTwoRealSoulSelfUseEvilFoundCan DoSinBusinessEnemySacrificeSocietyVictoryConflictEthicsAnd LoveArmyVictimDepthGood And EvilOccupationCampsDefeatedBattlefieldsExterminationInner ConflictSin And Love Author:Maximilian Kolbe