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

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Henry Mintzberg

#Learning Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Community Quotes

“It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior”

Source : Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.22, Haymarket Books
“I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.”
“You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.”
“I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.”
“There is no such thing as life in-between.”
“The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.”
“Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around”
“The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.”

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