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Management Quotes by Richard Pascale
- Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating…
- Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often…
- Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.
- The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to…
- Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they…
- Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not…
- Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the…
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- The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of… — Dave Barry
- A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. — Milton Berle
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. — Ambrose Bierce
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. — David Bohm
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- Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. — James Agate