Archive for December, 2001

Dec 29th 2001 Noel Tichy

The ultimate test for a leader is not whether he or she makes smart decisions and takes decisive action, but whether he or she teaches others to be leaders and builds an organization that can sustain its success even when he or she is not around.
— Noel Tichy

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Dec 25th 2001 Charles E. Lucier and Janet D. Torsilieri

Managed learning is a more efficient and effective means of achieving the strategic agenda that leverages the natural dynamics of organizational change and knowledge creation and use.
— Charles E. Lucier and Janet D. Torsilieri

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Dec 21st 2001 Charles E. Lucier and Janet D. Torsilieri

The ultimate business objective of learning should be to systematically accelerate a company’s natural rate of improvement in value created for the customers it targets.
— Charles E. Lucier and Janet D. Torsilieri

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Dec 17th 2001 Pierre Wack (Royal Dutch/Shell forecaster and fath

The work you do should be a test of your perceptiveness. All great work becomes the art of seeing (paraphrased).
— Pierre Wack (Royal Dutch/Shell forecaster and fath

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Dec 13th 2001 Malcolm Tulloch

America’s economic growth is driven by population growth, which is expanding rapidly because of immigration. European populations are stagnating — they are becoming gentrified. One of Japan’s biggest problems is that its population is shrinking and graying. That’s what’s making its economic decline so difficult to repair.
— Malcolm Tulloch

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Dec 9th 2001 E. F. Schumacher

(Some people) always tend to clamour for a final solution, as if in life there could ever be a final solution other than death. For constructive work, the principal task is always the restoration of some kind of balance.
— E. F. Schumacher

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Dec 5th 2001 F. Scott Fitzgerald

… the test of a first class mind is the ability to hold two opposing views in the head at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Dec 1st 2001 Unknown

The different priorities that employees have can be described by the acronym MORE - Money, Opportunity, Respect, Experience
— Unknown

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