Management Quotes - Page 37

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

  Tom Peters

  Learning, Knowledge, Pissed Off

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• 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.

  Alan Watts

  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Alan W Watts (2012). “Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, p.98, Random House

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• 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.

  Martin Buber

  Learning, Knowledge, Reality

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

  Joseph O'Connor

  Learning, Knowledge, Belief

  Joseph O'Connor, Ian McDermott (1997). “The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving”, Thorsons Pub

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

  Ellen Langer

  Lying, Learning, Knowledge

  Ellen J. Langer (2007). “On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity”, p.131, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Peter Senge

  Fall, Learning, Knowledge

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• All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Learning, Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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

  W. Edwards Deming

  Learning, Knowledge, Two

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• 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.

  Ellen Langer

  Learning, Knowledge, Views

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• Problems only exist in the human mind.

  Anthony de Mello

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Learning, Knowledge, Unique

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

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• 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.

  David Weinberger

  Jobs, Learning, Knowledge

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.195, Basic Books

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

  Peter Drucker

  Learning, Knowledge, Two

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• 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.

  Steve Ballmer

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

  "Ballmer: Facebook Risks Being 'A Fad'" by Rhys Blakely, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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

  J. D. Trout

  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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• 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.

  Peter Senge

  Learning, Knowledge, Unique

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• 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.

  Michael E. Szymanczyk

  Learning, Knowledge, People

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• 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.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Issues

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

  Anthony de Mello

  Learning, Knowledge, Ideas

  "Anthony De Mello: Writings".

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

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Mean

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• 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.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, People

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

  Peter Block

  Relationship, Work, Communication

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

  Peter Drucker

  Learning, Knowledge, Volunteer

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• 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.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Learning, Knowledge, Men

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (2016). “The Principles of Scientific Management”, p.6, Cosimo Classics

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Knowledge, Learning

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (2000). “Nicomachean Ethics (Second Edition)”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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