Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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