"If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation."

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Source : James G. March (2008). “Explorations in Organizations”, p.13, Stanford University Press

James G. March

#Giving Quotes #Advice Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.”
“I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.”
“I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.”
“Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.”
“I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.”
“Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.”
“Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.”

Source : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster
“Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.”

Source : Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.12, Jaico Publishing House

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