Archive for March, 2002

Mar 29th 2002 Clayton M. Christensen

Three classes of factors affect what an organization can and cannot do: its resources, its processes, and its values.
— Clayton M. Christensen

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Mar 25th 2002 Alfie Kohn

When responsible action, the natural love of learning, and the desire to do good work are already part of who we are, then the tacit assumption to the contrary can be fairly described as dehumanizing.
— Alfie Kohn

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Mar 21st 2002 Peter Koestenbaum

The leadership mode is one of alertness, urgency, and dissatisfaction at all times.
— Peter Koestenbaum

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Mar 17th 2002 Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
— Machiavelli

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Mar 13th 2002 Warren Bennis

Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.
— Warren Bennis

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Mar 9th 2002 John Dingell

You decide the substance and I’ll decide the process, and I’ll beat you every time.
— John Dingell

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Mar 7th 2002 Viktor Frankl

…everything can be taken from us but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances — to choose one’s own way.
— Viktor Frankl

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Mar 5th 2002 Steven B. Sample

Anything worth doing at all is worth doing poorly. It may be worth more if it’s done well, but it’s worth something if it’s done poorly.
— Steven B. Sample

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Mar 1st 2002 Orio Giarini / Richard Feynman

That risk and uncertainty are important stimulants for life has been trumpeted by wiser observers than me. “. . . Uncertainty, far from being a symptom of imperfection, is in fact a natural property of economics, indeed, probably of all life systems. . . . Uncertainty is the name of the game in the service economy.” That’s from Orio Giarini, of the Geneva Association. Richard Feynman, the Nobel Laureate physicist adds: “. . . it is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.”
— Orio Giarini / Richard Feynman

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