Learning Quotes

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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
If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into… — John Seely Brown
A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls… — Peter Block
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I… — Isabel Allende
In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that… — Margaret J. Wheatley
The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition… — Peter Block
Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power… — Daniel Yankelovich
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either. — Eric Mazur
While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or… — Michael Polanyi

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