"Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation……" — 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 systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change."
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11 Quotes by Richard Pascale
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The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.
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The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and…
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Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it.…
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Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.
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The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating…
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Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded…
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Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed…
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Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout…
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People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into…
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Nothing fails like success.
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