"It is what we think we know that…" — Chester Barnard
"It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning."
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8 Quotes by Chester Barnard
Chester Barnard has 8 quotes on this site.
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The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
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Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.
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The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely,…
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A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of…
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To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of…
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A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men…
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