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The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
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The principal function of most corporations is not to maximize shareholder value, but to maximize the standard of living and quality of work life of those who manage the corporation.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
The Definitive Drucker: Challenges For Tomorrow's Executives -- Final Advice From the Father of Modern Management
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Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The fundamental problem is the reality around the executive. Unless he changes it by deliberate action, the flow of events will determine what he is concerned with and what he does.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
Self-managing organizations naturally provide for exceptional learning opportunities.