“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.” LongSelfLastsNamesLinesResultsKnowledgeLearningLimitsDiversityOrganizationManagementResponseBottomProductivityEvolveCorporationsConsistentDucksEngineeringEfficiencyVariationRefinedDisruptivePayoffOperating SystemsStreamlining Author:Richard Pascale
“I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.” MenWellsEarthScienceBeliefLinesKnowledgePositionExpressionUniqueImportanceRaisedStriveWell BeingImportance Of Science Author:Marie Curie
“Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.” LinesKnowledgeIgnoranceMiracleBoundaries Book:Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College Source: Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College
“Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.” SchoolUniverseLinesKnowledgeStudyExampleAbsolutesMathematicsObviousSurfaceSuggestionsSpectacularPsychedelicStraight LinesContinuum Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the subject, study the history of the sciences. Broad knowledge of all Nature has been the possession of no naturalist except Humboldt, and general relations constituted his specialty.” Has BeensScienceLinesViewsKnowledgeStudySubjectsHard WorkRelationPossessionBroadsAttainmentNaturalistSpecialty Author:Louis Agassiz
“Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.” PeopleHumansWisdomLinesAbilityKnowledgeTechnologyPersonalitySkillsFinancialDuesEngineeringFinancial SuccessTechnical SkillsTechnical Knowledge Author:Dale Carnegie
“The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.” KnowsScienceLinesKnowledgeBreakTreeArmsBranchesDimensionsQuantityStemAnglePartitionContinuance Book:The Advancement of Learning Source: The Advancement of Learning
“Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided us with a universe in which radiant energy of almost all wave lengths travels in straight lines over enormous distances with usually rather negligible absorption.” MatterScienceUniverseEnergyStarsLinesKnowledgeDistanceWaveAstronomyEnormousLengthRadiationRadiantStraight LinesAbsorptionInterstellar Author:Lyman Spitzer