Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
“restructuring the organization to embrace more agile and adaptive models is a critical step in building resilience. By moving beyond traditional hierarchies,… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity… — Warren G Copy Share Image
And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“In short, we much struggle with the meaning of learning within our discipline and how best to cultivate and recognize it. For… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
Having adaptive events televised in the X Games is huge. There are people out there who might want to do this but… — Mike Schultz Copy Share Image
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems. — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Teaming up with Adaptive Studios and Shudder is a wonderful opportunity to support emerging filmmakers in finding the new horror icon. This… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the… — Jerry Sabloff Copy Share Image
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will… — Osman Rashid Copy Share Image
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive. — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its… — Jessa Gamble Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
DivX Plus Streaming is adaptive bit rate streaming solutions, which means it works by detecting a user bandwidth and CPU capacity in… — Alfred Amoroso Copy Share Image
“An adaptive change that is beneficial to the organization as a whole may clearly and tangibly hurt some of those who had… — Martin Linsky Copy Share Image
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage,… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
“the challenge of leadership when trying to generate adaptive change is to work with differences, passions, and conflicts in a way that… — Martin Linsky Copy Share Image
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
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