Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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