"Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change."

-- Richard Pascale

#Learning Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Self Quotes

“The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.”
“Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.”
“Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.”

Source : Gilbert Highet (2015). “The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature”, p.549, Oxford University Press
“My name is CHL. That's Charles Haas Layfield.”
“Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.”
“The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.”
“For a joint scientificÂ and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give meÂ Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of aÂ hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.”

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