"The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them."

-- Ricardo Semler

#Using People Quotes #Practice Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“It's not difficult to move forward when you have nothing to lose. Right? At the time, I had nothing to lose. So, even when people were trying to degrade me, I couldn't let them take the only thing I had, which was my dream. I had to move forward and, thank God, I kept trying.”
“Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don't really have a better idea.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.”
“I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”
“I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.”
“There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.”

Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.
“We are like a snowflake all different in our own beautiful way.”
“So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.”

You may also like:

Charles Handy
Author
Dee Hock
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Former President of Brazil
Gary Hamel
Manager
Henry Mintzberg
Author
Sumantra Ghoshal
Author
Tom Peters
Writer
Tony Hsieh
Internet Entrepreneur
Warren G. Bennis
Author