"Understanding is continuous and dynamic. What one understood yesterday may not be relevant today"
"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
“Change is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
Charles Darwin
“Data is directional, Change is emotional”
Dan Feliciano (GE MBB)
“Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare
you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity”
R.I. Fitzhenry
"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple."
Charles Mingus
"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Henry Ford
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
Sandra Carey
"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."
Stephen R. Covey
"The most difficult problem to solve is employee indifference: people closing their eyes and choosing to do nothing."
Katsuvoshi Ishihara
"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
Isaac Newton
"Control without action is simply a hobby."
Kauru Ishikawa
“ Problems breed problems and the lack of a disciplined method of openly attacking them breeds more problems."
Philip Crosby
“An old error is always more popular than a new truth."
German Proverb
"You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."
“The source of real discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”
Marcel Proust
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel”
Carl W. Buechner
“Consistency of purpose, planning for the future, understanding the past, developing a system of measurement that truly helps the company survive and prosper: that is the job of the executive”
Dr. W. Edwards Deming
“To achieve Quality there is no substitute for knowledge”
Deming
"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life."
Alex Noble
"Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes"
Peter Senge
"knowledge is the "force within" the organization"
"Knowledge is power but knowledge shared is power squared"
”Trust is the bandwidth of communication” (Karl Eric Sveiby)
”Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It is the life-blood of an organization.
When people have a high degree of trust in each other - they work together extremely effectively” (Stephen Covey)
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them" Albert Einstein
"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking" Proverb
"Impossibilities are merely things which have not yet learnt" Charles W. Chestnutt
"A stumble may prevent a fall" Proverb
"While all can see the tactics by which the battle is won, none can see the strategy by which the enemy is defeated" Sun Tzu, The Art of War