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Light is the purest form of knowledge. Having no characteristics itself, it enables others to see.

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall McLuhan | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Knowledge

Discussions of tacit knowledge typically proceed from Polanyi’s observation “…that the aim of a skilful performance is achieved by the observance of a set of rules which are not known as such by the person observing them.” Erroneously, this is often taken as a rationale for defining tacit knowledge as knowledge that is not capable of articulation and codification. This, however, disregards the second part … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Lars Håkanson | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: Knowledge

To put ideas into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Content: Quotation | Author: Goethe | Subjects: Action, Innovation

The GMAT is a surrogate of IQ because it measures analytic abilities. Getting in the 90th percentile positions you for a career platform that starts out at a very high level. But, everyone else on that career platform has similar cognitive aptitudes. There’s very little to distinguish you on an intellectual basis. The other aptitudes turn out to matter more for real-world success, because there … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Goleman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Achievement, Intelligence

We’re incredibly good at telling ourselves stories, and these help us feel as if we are honest even when we act dishonestly.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dan Ariely | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Ethics, Integrity

In many companies, people automatically assume that explicit knowledge is more reliable and accurate—a way of thinking that dates back at least to the era of scientific management.When an executive says, “Cut to the chase, just give me the numbers,” he or she is declaring his allegiance to episteme by attempting to exclude information that arrives through subjective means.

But organizations that favor explicit over tacit … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Knowledge

Models and concepts and frameworks are—to use another phrase—mental boxes within which we comprehend the real world. And ever since the 1960s, we have been taught to be creative by “thinking outside the box.”

The trouble is this: once you have mentally stepped outside the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Alan Iny, Luc de Brabandere | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation, Thought

And the antidote to fear? Pull people out of their panic and self-protective impulses by first acknowledging the difficulties, then raising their eyes and hearts to a possibility of success.

At that point you can take advantage of their newly available and hopeful energy to make that possibility a reality.

Content: Quotation | Author: Erika Andersen | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Change Management, Fear / Doubt, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

When people get into a routine, their brains often shift into neutral: They become less likely to spot changes in the environment and less likely to question what they are doing and how they are doing it. Embedded in routines are assumptions about the world and how it works, assumptions we often mistake for reality. When the world changes faster than our assumptions about it, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Keith McFarland | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Management, Perception

We see problems, not as they are, but as we are. That’s why attitude plays such a crucial role in separating those who lead from those who follow. Alfred Armand Montapert said, “The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.”

Content: Quotation | Authors: Alfred Armand Montapert, John Maxwell | Subjects: Adversity, Opportunity, Problems / Solutions

What is it that makes luck so dominant in the determination of outcomes? Almost every system of even moderate complexity is subject to random variation. Because of this, in any system with a large number of players engaged in repeated attempts to win, some will pile up seemingly remarkable streaks simply as a consequence of that randomness. And the greater the randomness, the longer and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael E. Raynor | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subject: Luck

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ronald Reagan | Source: FinanceProfessor.com | Subjects: Economics, Government

Unfortunately, a threat that everyone perceives but no one talks about creates more anxiety than a threat that has been clearly identified and made the focal point for the problem-solving efforts of the entire company. That is one reason honesty and humility on the part of top management may be the first prerequisite of revitalization. Another reason is the need to make “participation” more than … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: C.K. Prahalad | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Adversity, Management, Organizational Behavior

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Content: Quotation | Author: Emile Chartier | Subject: Thought

Westerners divide things into parts, often opposites, rather than seeing the whole. That has been the basis of scientific method and it has led to amazing discoveries. However for the complex problems we face today, I believe we need to see the whole interconnected system and diagnose the underlying issues. We seem to have difficulty seeing the whole system and tend to chop things up … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Bruce Nixon | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior, Philosophy, Thought

Many managers rely on deliberate cognition—that is, the ability of the human mind to process and analyze information—and an appeal to reason. By contrast, insurgents realize that audiences rely on automatic cognition, or shortcuts, to make sense of the world. Hence, they use symbols to communicate their point of view.

Content: Quotation | Author: Hayagreeva Rao | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Communication, Organizational Behavior, Persuasion

We don’t see the world directly. We perceive it through frameworks of ideas and beliefs, which act as filters on what we perceive and how we perceive it. Some of these ideas enter our consciousness so deeply that we’re not even aware of them. They strike us as simple common sense. They often show up, though, in the metaphors and images we use to think … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ken Robinson, Ph.D. | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Perception, Personality / Behavior

Problem ­solving invites reason, compromise, and, ultimately, mutual respect; ­identity ­building invites posturing, passion, and, ultimately, intolerance.

Content: Quotation | Author: Gil Troy | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Problems / Solutions

Life is short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience misleading and judgment difficult.

Content: Quotation | Author: Hippocrates | Subjects: Experience, Judgement, Life, Wisdom

I don’t like scenario planning, because people don’t think out of the box. So scenario planning may focus on four, five, or six scenarios that you can envision, at the expense of others you can’t. Instead of looking at scenarios and forecasts, you should be looking to see how fragile your portfolio is. How vulnerable are you to model error? How vulnerable is your cash … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Future, Risk Management, Strategy