"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."

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Source : "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

Russell L. Ackoff

#Leadership Quotes #Taken Quotes #Focus Quotes

“The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.”

Source : "Rex Stout: 'No Man My Age Writes Books'" by John F. Bake, Publishers Weekly Magazine, pp. 28 - 29, October 29, 1973.
“I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.”
“30 years ago in white supremacy, we had a strategy called leaderless resistance. The concept was: stop shaving our heads, stop getting tattoos and instead try to blend in as much as possible. It was a really concerted effort to try and tone down the rhetoric and make it a little more palatable to the mainstream. And it certainly has penetrated the mainstream now. We're seeing people who were supportive of our cause back then also supportive of Donald Trump's cause, certainly with the recent cabinet appointments.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com
“I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.”
“The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.”
“I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.”
“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.”
“Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.”

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