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“Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.”

Real House Company Knowledge Learning Stupid Management Cards Google House Of Cards

“If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry”

Ifs World Persons Bigs Jobs Knowledge Learning Capable Management Hungry Employee

Author:Andy Grove

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”

“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”

“Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.”

Knowledge Learning Management Including Objectives Quota

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.”

Learning Management Priorities Faster Right Thing Programming Substitutes Time Management Doing The Right Thing Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Book:First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There

Source: First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There

“You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.”

Ifs Knows Life Giving Mean Doe Ends Light Knowledge Learning Degrees Capacity Management Lenses Transparency Beam

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.”

Trying Mind Children Purpose Loss Results Knowledge Learning Crosses Harmony Management Disappointment Misunderstanding

Book:The continuum concept

Source: The continuum concept

“If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.”

Ifs Knowledge Learning Havens Management Pissed Off

Author:Tom Peters

“The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.”

Source: Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.”

Littles Hands Reality Knowledge Learning Window Management Doctrine Dialogue Again And Again Listen To Me Little Bee

Author:Martin Buber

“Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.”

Belief Knowledge Learning Evidence Management Contrary Despite Being True

Book:The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving

Source: The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving

“In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.”

May Persons Lying Knowledge Learning Perspective Management Self Knowledge Lenses

Book:On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

Source: On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

“Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder”

Ifs Persons Turns Fall Accepting Class Knowledge Learning Groups Influence Particular Shapes Prejudice Management Active Agents Tone Interaction Behaviour Stereotype Participating

Author:Peter Senge

“Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.”

Two Knowledge Learning Management Inevitable Rules Of Life Change Is Inevitable

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child”

Children School Individual Knowledge Learning Needed Management Curriculum

Author:Charles Handy

“Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.”

Suffering Culture Individual Views Knowledge Learning Management Locked

Author:Ellen Langer

“Problems only exist in the human mind.”

Thinking Mind Humans Problem Knowledge Learning Management Human Mind

Author:Anthony de Mello

“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.”

Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century

“Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.”

People Jobs Interesting Knowledge Learning Conversation Management Workers Defining Knowledge Workers Interesting Conversation

Book:The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

“You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.”

Two Knowledge Learning Ears Management Manage

Author:Peter Drucker

“I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.”

People Thinking Social Knowledge Learning Management Legs Appeals Social Network

Author:Steve Ballmer

“The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.”

Important Knowledge Learning Theory Bears Management Painful Alternatives Important Questions Envisioning

Author:J. D. Trout

“Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.”

People World Able Understanding Knowledge Learning Unique Gains Connections Management True Understanding

Author:Peter Senge

“Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.”

People Problem Together Asks Knowledge Learning Conversation Normal Management Fundamentals Debate Stale

Author:Michael E. Szymanczyk

“The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.”

World Needs Doe Knowledge Learning Issues Plans Promise Projects Management Impact Definitions Planning Engagement Project Management

Author:Peter Block

“The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.”

Way Ideas Helping Challenges Knowledge Learning Management

Author:Anthony de Mello

“To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.”

Mean Knowledge Learning Willing Return Promise Management Committed Exception

Author:Peter Block

“Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.”

People Want Knowledge Learning Heard Worst Advice Conversation Claims Management Dominance Unfriendly

Author:Peter Block

“We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.”

Work Knowledge Learning Relationship Communication Connections Management Consultants Personal Connection

Author:Peter Block

“In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.”

Knowledge Economy Learning Management Manage Managers Volunteer

Author:Peter Drucker

“In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Past Class Knowledge Learning Objects He Man Needed Management Contrary Developing Great Men Systematic First Class

Book:The Principles of Scientific Management

Source: The Principles of Scientific Management

“Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.”

Source: Nicomachean Ethics (Second Edition)

“I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.”

Men Ideas Accepting Knowledge Learning Influence Events Rivers Management Mere Refuse Surround Unfolding Flotsam

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.”

War Action Difficult Water Natural Results Effort Knowledge Learning Achieve Movement Walking Elements Normal Management Simplest Moderates

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.”

Song Knowledge Learning Bird Management

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.”

Values Levels Knowledge Learning Taught Understood Management Evolve Interaction True Value Tacit

Author:Dave Snowden

“I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.”

Years Long Has Beens Knowledge Learning Fit Management Guru Headlines Charlatans

Author:Peter Drucker

“Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.”

People Culture Effort Knowledge Practice Learning Management Technique Corporate Again And Again Innovative

Author:Peter Senge

“People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.”

People Want Looks Knowledge Forever Learning Ready Waste Management Arguing Something New Wasting Time Don't Waste Time

Book:Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Source: Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

“Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.”

Has Beens Said Use Song Girl Left Knowledge Learning Management Denied

Author:Al Stewart

“Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

“Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.”

“We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.”

People Way Needs Giving Trying Action Knowledge Learning Advice Tomorrow Increase Management Obvious Yesterday Helpful Advise Likelihood Recommendations

Author:Peter Block

“An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.”

Humans Born Results Knowledge Learning Conversation Commitment Management Determined

Author:Fernando Flores

“The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.”

People Way Knowledge Learning Groups Tasks Management

Author:Peter Block

“If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.”

Ifs Whole Together Turns Social Space Knowledge Technology Learning Information Design Management Milieu

Author:John Seely Brown

“A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.”

Needs Process Leader Knowledge Creative Learning Diversity Management These Days Mutual Host Creative Process Viewpoints

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

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