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Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free flowing brain power-that is, when it is given coherent form (a mailing list, a database, an agenda for a meeting, a description of process); when it is captured in a way that allows it to be described, shared and exploited; and when it can be deployed to do something that could not … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Intelligence, Knowledge

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Every sustained wave of technological progress and economic development everywhere has been fueled by greed, profiteering, special privileges, and megalomania.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Observations, Progress

…knowledge has three M’s: message, medium, and motivation. Message-you have to define the business-critical information in your organization. Medium-you need some sort of system to provide the right type of information to the right people at the right time. But most important, I think, is the motivation side. You have to motivate people both to populate a system and to use it. And that gets … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Richard A. Kleinert | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Knowledge

Men and nations may behave wisely once they’ve exhausted all other alternatives.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Perception, Personality / Behavior

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Content: Quotation | Source: WriteWorks | Subjects: Ambition, Commitment

When you know absolutely nothing about a skill, you are unconsciously incompetent — that is, you don’t know what you don’t know. As you learn more, you become consciously incompetent: you know what you don’t know. With training and practice you can become consciously competent, while total mastery makes you unconsciously competent, meaning that you use the skill so effortlessly that you’re not even aware … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Competence, Knowledge

Balance is not a math problem: It’s not a matter of shifting a few hours each week from one activity to another. If it were that easy, everyone with a PalmPilot would look as serene as the Dalai Lama. Balance is a design problem — a matter of coming to terms with your values and priorities, of reckoning with the trade-offs that they require. Balance … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Time Management, Work

What we need is moral leadership. Plato and Aristotle said the four cardinal virtues are justice, wisdom, courage, and self-control. I think they’re still right, 2,500 years later.

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Ethics, Wisdom

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Content: Quotation | Source: Abraham.com | Subjects: Observations, Personality / Behavior

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Innovation, Wisdom

For all its promise, the Internet is too noisy a place. It brings us information in real time and at no cost, but it will never displace those who provide real insight and leadership. The ability to spot the trends in the glut of information is a human art. The future will provide a premium for leaders who offer such wisdom, and an audience willing … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Information, IT / Technology / E-Business

We are practical beings, each of us with limited functions and duties to perform. Each is bound to feel intensely the importance of his own duties and the significance of the situations that call these forth. But this feeling is in each of us a vital secret, for sympathy with which we vainly look to others. The others are too much absorbed in their own … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Observations, Personality / Behavior

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Action

When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Accountability, Action

Admit to yourself, “I am not indispensable.” Repeat over and over. Most people don’t want to admit this. Most people are wrong.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Observations, Perception

The only way on earth to influence… [someone] is to talk about what he [she] wants and show him [her] how to get it.

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Personal Development, Persuasion

Never ignore a coincidence. Ever. It is a message that breaks through the same old patterns and often is a golden opportunity. You just need to figure out what kind. The important part is letting go of the idea of how things should be and trusting that you don’t know the big picture.

…I use coincidences as a way of thinking creatively…The universe is radically ambiguous. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Opportunity, Perception

The man who does not make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Mistakes, Success / Failure

Stronger than all the armies on earth is an idea whose time has come.

Content: Quotation | Source: PBS | Subjects: Innovation, Thought