"Companies, like people, don't much like to change." — James Surowiecki

"Companies, like people, don't much like to change."

— James Surowiecki

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150 Quotes by James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or…
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the…
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises.…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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More Change Quotes

This quote is filed under Change Quotes, one of 18,261 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from… — Billie Joe Armstrong
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about… — Karen Armstrong
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in… — David Attenborough
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our… — David Attenborough
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also… — David Attenborough
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius

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