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With no common purpose guiding the organization, people tend to treat their individual or departmental goals as organizational goals. This results in silos and turf wars. Each department clamors for their cause. There is no mutual
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This is exactly how silos are created.
“I said to him, ‘There is no royal road to learning, sire,’ and he said to me, ‘Bloody well build one or I shall have your legs chopped off. Use as many slaves as you like.’ A refreshingly direct approach, I always thought. Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“He could think in italics. Such people need watching. Preferably from a safe distance.”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
“He can’t stop us. We’re on a mission from Glod.”
― Soul Music
― Soul Music
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― The American Crisis
― The American Crisis
“You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they’re progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they’ll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
David’s 2025 Year in Books
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