Arie de Geus Quotes
Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.
Quotes to Explore
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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Unlike some viruses, we don't know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it's bats, but it's still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career.
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I don't know if I'd do well in a structured, corporate environment. I'm very open. I share everything. I don't care. I don't have anything to hide. I'm very transparent that way.
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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
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The environment shapes people's actions.
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I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
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Momentum is building for the creation of a shared future, one that is more egalitarian, inclusive, and respectful of the environment - a future that ultimately offers greater possibilities for personal development and control over our individual lives.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
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Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.
