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"Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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Personal Development
"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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Personal Development
"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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Personal Development
"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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Personal Development
"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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Personal Development
"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
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Personal Development
"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
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Personal Development
"Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled."
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Personal Development
"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
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"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it."
Computer
"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
Time
"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
Research
"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
Being
"The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part."
Environment
"We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work."
Work
"The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other."
Environment
"Managing bottom-up change is its own art."
Art
"But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions."
History
"Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms."
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