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The way to cope with complexity is with an extremely flexible
organization that trusts employees to find their own way through the maze.
(John Trani, GE Medical Systems) Oct 2004
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe.
(H.G. Wells, 1866-1946, in The Outline of History) Nov. 2004
Ideas are the only things that can change the world. The rest is
details.
(Scott Adams, in God’s debris) Jan 2005
Cream always rises to the top.
(Beamish Irish Stout) Feb 2005
We must become the change we want to see in the world.
(Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948) March 2005
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841 – 1935) April 2005
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
(Mahatma Gandhi,
1869-1948) May 2005
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important
than the knowledge gained.
(David Bohm,1917-1992,
American Physicist & Philosopher) June 2005
No, I am not really complicated; I am just a whole lot of
different simple people.
(Francis Scott Fitzgerald,1896-1940) July 2005
The total quality movement and re-engineering both focus on
process. What has been largely missing is any focus on relationship.
(Linda Ellinor)
August 2005
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers:
you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you
progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
(Stephen R. Covey)
September 2005
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow,
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
(John Dryden, 1631-1700) October 2005
The companies that flourish in this decade will do so because
they are able to provide meaning and purpose, a context and a time frame that
encourage individual potential to flourish and grow.
(Professor Lynda Gratton,
London BusinessSchool)
November 2005
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite:
its starting point.
(Henry Mintzberg) December 2005
What defeats poverty? Education. What increases net worth?
Education. What helps race and ethnic relations? Education. What creates
harmony and peace? Education. Re-educating people to live together and learn
together is the foundation of our future economy.
(Melanie Alfonso, Mother, Teacher, Nurse, Housemaid – NY) January
2006
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
(Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745) February 2006
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
(Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903) March 2006
Life is too short to be small
(Benjamin Disraeli) April 2006
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion
that it becomes a reality
(Anita Roddick, founder of Body Shop) May 2006
The most exciting breakthrough of the 21st century
will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of
what it means to be human.
(John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends 2000) June 2006
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.
(Marcel Proust, 1871-1947) July 2006
If a global civilization is emerging, we may be entering its heroic
age, its age of creation.
(Stuart Kauffman, At Home
in The Universe) August 2006
I am not what happened to me, I am what I chose to become.
(Carl Jung) September 2006
The supreme purpose of history is to build a better world.
(Herbert Hoover, US President 1929-1933) October 2006
Ah! Not in knowledge is happiness but in the acquisition of
knowledge.
(Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849) December 2006
Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden, but never
extinguished.
(Nelson Mandela) January 2007
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the
point is to discover them.
(Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642) February 2007
Genius is daring, success is sharing.
(George Talenture) March 2007
Knowledge is not the power. The ability to act on knowledge is
power. Most people in most organizations do not have the ability to act on the
knowledge they possess.
(Michael Schrage)
April 2007
When I hear corporate leaders refer to values as “soft” issues, I
wonder what they regard as “hard”. In my experience, cultural beliefs are the
heart and soul of all business matters.
(Eli Lilly, CEO of Randall Tobias) May 2007
A business which makes nothing but money is a poor business.
(Henry Ford, 1863-1947) June 2007
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
(Albert Einstein, 1879-1955) July 2007
If you are not failing every now and again, it is a sign that you
are not doing anything very innovative.
(Woody Allen) August 2007
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements
of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic
about.
(Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875) September 2007
These times will not allow companies to remain aloof and
prosperous while the surrounding communities decline and decay.
(Jack Welch) October 2007
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in
your life.
(Confucius, 551-479 BC) November 2007
Saying the purpose of business is to make money is akin to saying
the purpose of life is to eat.
(Theodore Levitt) December 2007
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
(Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) January 2008
Looking at the water that once was the wave really tells us
nothing about the wave.
(Eric Butterworth, 1916-2003) February 2008
“We live in an age when ever-developing new communications
technology allows us to design smaller, more intelligent, less machismo,
bully-boy buildings than old fashioned, money-is-might, towers. (Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian Feb 1st 2008), March 2008
"Participation and understanding interfere with each other,
ensuring that our understanding is inherently imperfect and our actions have
unintended consequences".(George Soros in The bubble
of American Supremacy), April 2008
"A
common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) May 2008
"Reality
is a moving target that remains just beyond our range for ever."(George
Soros) (June 2008)
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers
exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened." (Douglas Adams) July 2008
"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther
than you can see." (Winston Churchill) August 2008
"Strong
reasons make strong actions". (William
Shakespeare) September 2008
"You
cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus". (Mark
Twain, 1835 - 1910) October 2008
"There is reason to be hopeful that a new vision based on
transformation of consciousness and a new commitment to community will take
hold". (Jeremy Rifkin) November 2008
"As our case is new, we must think and act anew". (Abraham Lincoln) December 2008
"The new Web is about verbs, not nouns". (Ross Mayfield) January 2009
The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and
precisely that it is expected to work. (John Von Neumann) February 2009
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to
change them yourself. (Andy Warhol 1928 - 1987) March 2009
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. (Isaac Asimov, 1920
- 1992) April 2009
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is
about telescopes. (E. W. Dijkstra) May 2009
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who
understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not
understand. (Putt's Law) June 2009
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Theophrastus
(372 BC - 287 BC) July 2009
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his
home. (Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977), August 2009
“Drive thy business
or it will drive thee”. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), September
2009
“I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know
nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.” John Maynard Keynes (1883 –
1946), October 2009
“Winning companies today have open and porous boundaries and
compete by reaching outside their walls to harness external knowledge,
resources, and capabilities.”(Don Tapscott, in Wikinomics). November 2009
"Visionary companies display a
powerful drive for progress that enables them to change and adapt without
compromising their cherished core ideals." (Arie de Geus, in The Living Company). December
2009
“The most precious gift of the mind - its
total freedom - is the source of our creativity.” (Deepak Chopra). January 2010
“The universe is change;
our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180
AD).” February 2010
"Genius is one per cent
inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
March 2010
“When the pain of being
the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.” Deepak
Chopra, in Why is God Laughing. April 2010
“Only the educated
are free.” Epictetus (55 AD - 135
AD). May 2010
“Because things are the
way they are, things will not stay the way they are. Bertolt Brecht.” June 2010
“My equation is smarter
than I am.” Paul Dirac (1902-1984) July 2010
"The art of
interpretation is not to play what is written." (Pablo Casals, 1876-1973).
Aug 2010
“Science is a way of
thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” (Carl Sagan,
1934-1996). Sept. 2010
“It is not the actual
information that is the focus of the information age; it is rather the amazing
opportunity for us to connect to one another or to computers from almost anywhere.”(Igor
Aleksander, in It must be beautiful). Oct. 2010
"Every saint has a
past, every sinner has a future." (Oscar Wilde). Nov. 2010
“A good conscience is a
continual Christmas.” (Benjamin Franklin) Dec 2010
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act, but a habit.” (Aristotle) Jan 2011
“Let us make a special
effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation”.
(Judith Martin, Miss Manners) Feb 2011
Change before you have to.
(Jack Welch) March 2011
A runner must run with
dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
(Emil Zatopek) April 2011
I want to go ahead of
Father Time with a scythe of my own. (H. G. Wells)
May 2011
I have great faith in
fools; self-confidence my friends call it. (Edgar Allan Poe) June 2011
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating. (Lionel Hampton)
July 2011
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. (Plutarch)
August 2011
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem
indispensable (Kin Hubbard)
September 2011
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. (Groucho Marx) October 2011
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. (John F. Kennedy) November 2011
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. (Herbert Spencer, 1820 - 1903) December 2011
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