Knowledge Quotes

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The only way that someone can be of help to you is by challenging your ideas. — Anthony de Mello
To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return. — Peter Block
Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice… — Peter Block
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur. — Peter Block
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts. — Peter Drucker
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason… — Aristotle
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in… — Carl von Clausewitz
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level… — Dave Snowden
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline. — Peter Drucker
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice… — Peter Senge
People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever.… — Daniel Quinn
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this.… — Albert Einstein
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces… — W. Edwards Deming
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources". — Henry Mintzberg
We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations,… — Peter Block
An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations. — Fernando Flores
The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in. — Peter Block

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