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We are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Decision Making, Life

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Content: Quotation | Source: USTelecom dailyLead | Subjects: Decision Making, Thought

The final act of business judgment is of course intuitive. … But the big work behind business judgement is in finding and acknowledging the facts and circumstances concerning technology, the market, and the like in their continuously changing forms.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Decision Making, Thought

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Attention, Information

The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.

Content: Quotation | Source: Famous Forecasting Quotes | Subject: Future

The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Future

Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Innovation, Progress

Communities of practice create value by improving the performance of their members when they apply their knowledge in the performance of their job. Because practitioners belong at once to their communities of practice and to their work teams, they are the direct “carriers” of knowledge. If a new solution is proposed in their community, they can apply it to their work. If they discover a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Knowledge

IQ does not separate the star from the average performer. Every job has an IQ hurdle that people have to jump over, but whether you jump it and just barely clear it or whether you jump it and clear it by 30 extra points doesn’t seem to make a difference. People get mistakenly fixated on IQ as a predictor of success. There is data that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Human Resources, Intelligence

We cannot achieve fulfillment simply by aiming for it, Aristotle taught; instead, we must cultivate traits of character (which he called virtues) that will lead us to behave automatically in a way that contributes to our success.

Aristotle also writes about vices. For every virtue there are usually two vices – one representing too much and one too little of the virtue in question. The vices … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Character, Philosophy

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Content: Quotation | Source: Zaadz | Subjects: Ability, Skills

Integrity is the measure of the degree to which we have developed our independent will in our daily lives-how well we have implemented the goals chosen through personal leadership. Integrity is our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves.

Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen R. Covey | Source: ManyWorlds | Subjects: Character, Integrity

In globalization we can come closer together, but we still don’t know one another. We can start up a new business fast, but growing wise in the way of life takes a long time. It’s never complete, never right, and never perfect. An ethic is deeper than morality or custom. It comes out of our deepest desire to make meaning out of our lives and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Culture, Integrity

Nothing substitutes depth of analysis and there’s proven value in the methodical and incremental process of specialization – it’s what education, career paths, scientific research, and technological innovation are built on – but generalism is the hidden talent, the missing link. With so much complex information, that is fragmented in so many ways and developing faster and faster, it is increasingly important to have generalists … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Skills, Thought

The biggest reason you do not hear much about corporate mistakes, unless they are so colossal that some government entity forces an investigation, is that most companies do not put together blue-ribbon investigative committees to find causes of failures and recommend improvements. No one would accept a statement that an airliner “just crashed-we’re not sure why, but we’ll try not to do it again.” Yet … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: BetterManagement.com | Subjects: Accountability, Mistakes

Business thinking starts with an intuitive choice of assumptions. Its progress as analysis is intertwined with intuition. The final choice is always intuitive. If that were not true, all problems of almost any kind would be solved by mathematicians with nonquantitative data.

The final choice in all business decision is, of course, intuitive. It must be. Otherwise it is not a decision, just a conclusion, a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Decision Making, Thought

What I’ve learned about business owners and human beings is that they respect wisdom but obey pain.

Content: Quotation | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Wisdom

All progress requires change. But not all change is progress.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Change Management, Progress

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Official Website of Malcolm X | Subjects: Achievement, Adversity

The problem with KM-besides its being an unwieldy term-is that there’s no intrinsic value in managing knowledge. The term itself isn’t outcome- or business-oriented.

I’ve really tried to extricate myself from it. I believe there are five ways of looking at the issues unearthed by KM: social networks, collaboration, data relevance, workflow, and knowledge-based relationships. These are all outcome-oriented, and executives understand them. To me, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subject: Knowledge