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Everything seems urgent and very little actually is. When I come back from a long trip and haven’t been current on my voicemail or email, I’m always struck by the fact that what seem like crises on Day One resolve themselves without any interaction from me.

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Delegation, Problems / Solutions, Time Management

Your calendar epitomizes your values and will dictate your behavior.

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Time Management

People automatically associate input related to quantity (how long it takes to make a car) with output quality (how well it performs). While in many cases, input information does directly correspond to outcome, in some cases it does not. Yet humans are hardwired to automatically associate input and output. And people can prey on your input bias, causing you to make poor decisions or judgments … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Maurice Schweitzer, Stephanie Overby | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Thought

If you want the imagination to see the future, then you better have the wisdom to appreciate the past. An obsession with the present—with what’s “hot”, and what’s “in”—may be dazzling, but all that does is blind everyone to the reality. Show me a chief executive who ignores yesterday, who favors the new outsider over the experienced insider, the quick fix over steady progress, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Henry Mintzberg | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Decision Making, Experience, Future, History, Management

If wisdom’s ways you wisely seek,
Five things observe with care,
To whom you speak,
Of whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Communication, Wisdom

What you are trying to develop in a manager is a kind of inductive skill in reading the terrain; of knowing intuitively when the paradigms are about to change or bust up—or endure.

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter Cappelli | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Future, Management, Trends / Analysis

…the more things you’re interested in and the more you learn, the richer the framework into which you can fit any new thing. So synthesis, if you do it at all, gets professionally easier with time. It’s no surprise that older people can do better at synthesis, because they’ve been learning their entire lives. It’s the opposite of, say, reasoning skills in mathematics. Synthesis increases … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jared Diamond | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Thought

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, Management, Persuasion

Everybody should be extraordinary to succeed, but nobody should have to be extraordinary to have the opportunity to succeed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Opportunity, Success / Failure

I think that most so-called knowledge management systems act like the Yellow Pages. They have been good at essentially two things: locating sources of knowledge internally, and tagging and cataloging existing knowledge in the company. But they haven’t been designed that well for prospecting and accessing knowledge outside the company. Most are fairly inward-looking, which is good for some consulting companies that have a lot … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Yves Doz | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Knowledge

Easily codified knowledge, the kind that knowledge systems manage pretty well, is probably the least deeply interesting knowledge, because it is not likely to provide very sustainable competitive differentiation. Learning by doing indeed leads to original operating knowledge, of a very valuable, hard-to-imitate type.

Content: Quotation | Author: Yves Doz | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Knowledge

From both a practical and theoretical standpoint, senior executives are expected to provide insight and vision about how the world is evolving over the next 10 to 30 years. But Americans probably have less sense of history than almost any culture on the planet and we seem to be, if anything, hell-bent on having even less sense of history. Understanding the past is yet another … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter Senge | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Future, History

I often say that life is like an apple—it falls into your hands. But it won’t fall into your hands unless you stand under the tree. You have to find the orchard, find the tree, and then something may happen.

Content: Quotation | Author: Charles Handy | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Personal Development, Wisdom

It is possible to honor the past and at the same time to make real the failings that lead us to want a better tomorrow.

Content: Quotation | Author: Taylor Bodman | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Future

Smart organizations ignore the urgent. Smart organizations understand that important issues are the ones to deal with. If you focus on the important stuff, the urgent will take care of itself. A key corollary to this principle is the idea that if you don’t have the time to do it right, there’s no way in the world you’ll find the time to do it over. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Seth Godin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Attention, Decision Making, Management, Personal Development, Time Management

I think the knowledge-driven economy is an unfortunate phrase because I tell you, making cars or making forklift trucks, or other high positioned equipment, needs, in my experience, more knowledge and more skills than running service sector companies and e-commerce dot com companies. Knowledge economy talk is quite an insult to my plumber and my car mechanic and the farmers and people who do other … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Bob Bischof | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Economics, Knowledge

The race doesn’t always go to the swift nor the battle to the strong. But that’s the way to bet.

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Wisdom

The challenge for me was to have informal contacts and to get information from outside the organization that had been set up to provide me information. I did that beginning at 6:30 every morning, when I’d hit my office having read all the newspapers. I would get the CIA to come in for 20 minutes with no other staff members present and tell me what … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Colin Powell | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Decision Making, Knowledge, Leadership

[Economics and technology] are the wrong places to begin. The fundamental changes are social, and they are the greatest changes imaginable.

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Economics, Future, IT / Technology / E-Business

The thing that Oprah Winfrey talks about all the time is that we do things either with love or fear. If you’re afraid, you can really mess up. If you just love what you’re doing, whatever happens you’re moving ahead.

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Attitude, Career, Fear / Doubt, Personal Development