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“Gregory Bateson said, “The source of all our problems today comes from the gap between how we think and how nature works.”
― Anonymous

“For all the wonders of modern science and its obsession with measurement, we believe life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.”
― Anonymous

“It was as though everyone began to shed wholeness and humanity at the door of institutions, along with their coats and overshoes.”
― Anonymous

“In industrial age organizations, purpose slowly erodes into process. Procedure takes precedence over product.”
― Anonymous

“The doing of the doing is why nothing gets done.”
― Anonymous

“For nearly three centuries we have worked diligently to structure society in accordance with that concept, believing that with ever more reductionist scientific knowledge, ever more specialization, ever more technology, ever more efficiency, ever more linear education, ever more rules and regulations, ever more hierarchal command and control, we could learn to engineer organizations in which we could pull a lever at one place, get a precise result at another, and know with certainty which lever to pull or for which result.”
― Anonymous

“It is not making better people of others that management is about. It’s about making a better person of self. Income, power, and title have nothing to do with that.”
― Anonymous

“Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, employ good people, and free them to do the same. All else is trivia.”
― Anonymous

“Success, while it may provide encouragement, build confidence, and be joyful indeed, often teaches an insidious lesson—to have too high an opinion of self.”
― Anonymous

“There isn’t any poor work; there’s only work poorly done, poorly recognized, or poorly paid”
― Anonymous

“reconnection to the suppressed, yet incredible spirit and creativity of the managed—the many who day in, day out, do the ordinary work of the world from which the wealth, power, and fame of the few is extracted.”
― Anonymous

“Rules and regulations, laws and contracts, can never replace clarity of shared purpose and clear, deeply held principles about conduct in pursuit of that purpose.”
― Anonymous

“Systems of self-governance, in the individual and at every scale beyond, are based on understanding that ordinances, orders, and enforcement deal with an absence of true governance.”
― Anonymous

“Those who rise in a tyrannical world are those least capable of self-governance, whether of themselves, or inducement of it in others, else they would not engage in tyranny.”
― Anonymous

“Inspiration is often the child of desperation.”
― Anonymous

“The truth is, that given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things.”
― Anonymous

“Making good judgments and acting wisely when one has complete data, facts, and information is not leadership. It’s not even management. It’s bookkeeping.”
― Anonymous

“Leadership requires ability to make wise decisions and act responsibly upon them when one has little more than a clear sense of direction, proper values, and some understanding of the forces driving change.”
― Anonymous

“I shared with him my deep conviction that life is not a possession. Nor is life merely a contract between the living. Life is a sacred contract between the dead, the living, and the unborn.”
― Anonymous

“A life worth living can’t be made of denial. It must be made of affirmation.”
― Anonymous

“It was their conviction that the world as they believed it ought to be already existed and the will to live their lives in accordance with that belief.”
― Anonymous

“After all, if you think you can’t, why think?”
― Anonymous

“Unfortunately, ahead lies the equal possibility of massive institutional failure, enormous social carnage, and regression to that ultimate manifestation of Newtonian, mechanistic concepts of organization, dictatorship, which, in turn, would have to collapse with even more carnage before new concepts of organization could emerge.”
― Anonymous

“Do not get angry, stubborn, and imperious. Get curious.”
― Dee Hock, Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition

“Only an unimaginative man would think that mechanistic, command-and-control organizations could ever produce an equitable, enduring, free society. Only a thoughtless man would create them. Only an arrogant man would run them. Only a cruel man would perpetuate them.”
― Dee Hock, Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition