Management Quotes - Page 38

• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Learning, Knowledge, Men

  Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• 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.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Knowledge, Learning

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.120, Princeton University Press

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• Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Learning, Knowledge

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• 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.

  Dave Snowden

  Learning, Knowledge, Levels

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Learning, Knowledge, Years

  "Peter Drucker, the man who changed the world" by D James, Business Review Weekly (p. 49), September 15, 1997.

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• 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.

  Peter Senge

  Learning, Knowledge, Practice

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• 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.

  Daniel Quinn

  Learning, Knowledge, People

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.189, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  Al Stewart

  Girl, Song, Learning

  Song: Love Chronicles, Album: Love Chronicles

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Motivation, Knowledge

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• 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.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Stars, Jobs, Motivation

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• An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

  Henry Mintzberg

  Learning, Knowledge, Community

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• 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.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Yesterday

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

  Fernando Flores

  Learning, Knowledge, Commitment

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

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, People

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• 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.

  John Seely Brown

  Learning, Knowledge, Technology

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• 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.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Learning, Knowledge, Diversity

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• Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.

  Peter Block

  Block, Fall, Knowledge

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• Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

  Isabel Allende

  Learning, Knowledge, Giving

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• In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Learning, Knowledge, Reality

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

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• Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.

  Daniel Yankelovich

  Learning, Knowledge, Mean

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• Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

  Eric Mazur

  Learning, Knowledge, Lectures

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• While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

  Michael Polanyi

  Learning, Knowledge, Explicit

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• When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

  Theodore Zeldin

  Learning, Knowledge, Technology

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• The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

  Stephen Covey

  Learning, Knowledge, Tree

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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