Peter Drucker on entrepreneurship
Saturday, March 19th, 2011“the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity”
– Peter Drucker, “Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Paradoxes and Contradictions
Saturday, March 5th, 2011“Paradoxes are the opposite of contradictions. Contradictions shut themselves down, but paradoxes keep themselves going, because every time you acknowledge the truth of one side you’re going to get caught from behind the truth on the other side.”
– “Free: The Future of a Radical Price”, Chris Anderson
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Abraham Lincoln on innovation
Monday, November 15th, 2010“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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Margaret Mead
Sunday, August 29th, 2010“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead
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Jean de La Bruysre
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”
– Jean de La Bruysre
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Lewis Carroll
Sunday, August 15th, 2010“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – nothing more and nothing less.”
– Humpty Dumpty, Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, August 12th, 2010“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Peter Drucker
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010“Knowledge workers know they can leave. They have both mobility and self-confidence. This means they have to be treated and managed as volunteers, in the same way as volunteers who work for not-for-profit organizations. The first thing such people want to know is what the company is trying to do and where it is going. Next, they are interested in personal achievement and personal responsibility – which means they have to be put in the right job. Knowledge workers expect continuous learning and continuous training. Above all, they want respect, not so much for themselves, but for their area of knowledge. Knowledge workers expect to make the decisions in their own area.”
– Peter Drucker, “Managing in the Next Society”
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Aristotle
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010“What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.”
– Aristotle
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Peter Drucker
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010“To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.”
– Peter Drucker