"You canâ€™t mandate [cultural change], canâ€™t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesnâ€™t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture."

-- Lou Gerstner

#Reality Quotes #Goal Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.”
“This kind of behavior is so bizarre â€“ no matter which version of the story you believe, even if you take Dougâ€™s own version of the story â€“ itâ€™s so bizarre and inappropriate that he needs to get his life in order and not be thinking about how quickly he can come back into leadership.”
“I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.”
“I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.”

Source : "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.”
“The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.”
“Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.”
“Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.”

Source : David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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