“We believe this approach (progress sharing) is a rational approach because you cooperate in creating the abundance that makes the progress possible, and then you share that progress after the fact, and not before the fact. Profit sharing would resolve the conflict between management apprehensions and worker expectations on the basis of solid economic facts as they materialize rather than on the basis of speculation as to what the future might hold.” BelieveFactsMightPoliticsEconomyProgressShareEconomicConflictApproachCreatingExpectationsBasesManagementWorkersProfitRationalAbundanceLiberalismResolveSpeculationApprehensionProfit Sharing Author:Walter Reuther
“It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.” PeopleWayHumansDoneAmericaConsciousnessUnited StatesProgressCivilizationCreatingUniqueRateInherentNoveltyHuman ConsciousnessNewness Book:Real Moments Source: Real Moments
“And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.” LittlesHas BeensArtMadeTwoAbilityNumbersPrinciplesProgressCreatingMathematicsRealmsFabricIncapableCould Have BeenSuccessionWovenReckoningCorrespondenceMatching Book:Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician Source: Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician
“...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.” ThinkingDoeArtMadeBeautifulArtistPerfectProgressCreatingHighestArt IsEvolveStagnantWork In ProgressThinking Of YouAuthentic LifeThinking Of Yourself Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.” IfsThinkingShouldImportantChoicesProgressCreatingPicksTradeProsperityFavorsTechnologicalVersusVariablesFree TradeTechnological Progress Author:Peter Thiel
“One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually digging ourselves out of the hole, but instead are digging ourselves into a deeper and deeper hole and will not be able to pay it back because we're not actually creating the new technologies that will enable us to pay back and the money somehow is not really being invested in the future or in progress.” PeopleThinkingReasonAblePayTechnologyProgressCreatingDeeperDebtHolesNervousDiggingNew Technology Author:Peter Thiel
“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.” HardWould BeFormNationsSituationProgressPlansWonderfulTeamChangedCreatingIllusionMethodConfusionEmploymentTeamworkLater In LifeInefficiencyNew SituationsReorganizationProgress And ChangeDemoralizationIllusion Of Time Author:Charlton Ogburn
“We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” HardWould BeFormSituationProgressWonderfulTeamCreatingIllusionMethodConfusionTeamworkEfficiencyTeam BuildingLater In LifeInefficiencyTeamwArbiterBuilding A TeamNew SituationsReorganizationDemoralization Author:Charlton Ogburn
“We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.” PeopleIfsDifferentMightJobsYoungEconomyProgressFitCreatingTestsSizeBrandsThriveEliminatingOne Size Fits All Author:Robert Reich
“I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.” IfsThinkingWayHumansHelpingUseCareUniverseCoursesMistakeProgressFailingFindingsApproachCreatingToolsTestsStructureTake CareRingsEndeavorOur RelationshipMarvelousImprovingHypothesisTestingTheoreticalMethodologyAnomalies Author:Edgar Mitchell
“On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.” PlayFoundSocialSidesRolesProgressCreatingWindowEntrepreneurCriticalGiantsExtensionsSocial Change Author:Lewis Schiff
“One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.” NeedsProblemMistakeCompanyForeverProgressTeamCreatingFunctionInnovationMirrorsCriticalCoreCrushAddressesVersusBiggest MistakeLarge Companies Author:Scott D. Anthony
“In the past, we've always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it's always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we're not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.” HumansEnoughJobsPastProgressCreatingCome UpTechnologicalNew JobTechnological Progress Author:Gemma Chan