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Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who…

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Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and…
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
The objective of education is learning, not teaching
Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems…. I choose…
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.
A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of…
It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem…
Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of…
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards…
Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what…
Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning…

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Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning… — Russell L. Ackoff
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