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Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.
— Luca Turin (subject of Chandler Burr’s The Emperor
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..you don’t search for an idea. You search for questions. Every single major piece of work I have been involved with came because some great student asked me a question that I could only stare at and say, “that’s a great question. I will have to get back to you.”
— Jim Collins
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
— Albert Einstein
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Online, brand with words. Brand with accurate, well-written, up-to-date content. Brand with classification. Brand with navigation. Brand with the search process. Brand with the purchase process.
— Gerry McGovern
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Great execution is necessary but not sufficient. You have to survive, of course. But you have to thrive, too. You can never come out of a downturn with only the same products that you had when you went into it. Leaders have to understand–at a gut level–the new possibilities that are out there.
— Andrew S. Grove
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People change their behavior when they are motivated to do so, and that happens when you speak to their feelings… You need something, often visual, that helps produce the emotions that motivate people to move more than one inch to the left or one inch to the right. Great leaders are brilliant at this. They tell the kind of stories that create pictures in your mind and have emotional impact… You get people to change less by giving them an analysis that changes their thinking than by showing them something that affects their feelings.
— John P. Kotter
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You have to understand the doctrine to know when to break the rules.
— Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King
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The manager’s job is to be effective. Effectiveness means creating a match between management style and the manager’s situation. The match can be made either by changing style or changing the situation.
— The Dean (David West)
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Growth strategies do not fail because of the unknown — they fail because managers are unwilling to confront what is known.
— Richard Z. Gooding, Ph.D.
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What, then, can be done about chronically unemployable people? What can businesses do? My answer would not be a new social compact, but a determination to remember the old one more precisely and live up to it more intelligently.
The old compact had always assumed that companies would self-interestedly support certain government actions to enforce the rules of the competitive game. Government would police property rights, establish the courts to punish criminals and settle judicial disputes, build roads and bridges, defend borders. Read “The Wealth of Nations.” The mutual obli-gations of companies and governments were specified from the start, and haven’t really changed. Though Adam Smith opposed anything like labor unions, one could find a rationale for most New Deal regulations, even collective bargaining, in what Smith had to say about government’s obligation to protect competition from the dangers of private monopolies.
But in one crucial respect, the old compact clearly needs an amendment, the part that has to do with education. The old compact assumed that government would educate children to be qualified for work, and that businesses would go along willingly. But to be qualified for a factory job, all that was necessary was bare literacy.
But none of this means businesses can themselves become responsible for education. Our companies invest more and more in training, but we cannot make our employees trainable. Businesses are more like specialized graduate schools than elementary schools; we need people to present themselves for work ready to learn and practice our marketing, design and production strategies, ready to learn our high technologies and quality systems. We cannot teach the basics.
— Bernard Avishai
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