Chris Argyris Quotes

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

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• Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Different
  • Kid
  • Responsible

• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Success
  • Happiness
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• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
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• You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

  

  Sally Field
  • Present
  • Lose
  • Behavior

• The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• 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.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Kind
  • Environment
  • Behavior

• If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Successful
  • Look
  • Management

• The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • True
  • Always
  • Facts

• Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Books
  • Laws
  • Behavior

• I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Promise
  • Animals
  • Behavior

• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Facts
  • Lead
  • Speculation

• Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Business
  • Team
  • Communication

• I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • World
  • Good
  • Management

• Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Business
  • Risk
  • Management

• There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

  

  Amanda Marshall
  • Bad
  • Management

• Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

  

  Bruce Pittman
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Small

• I said this morning that in this business, you have to reward the players that are playing well, and Michael Garnett is definitely giving us a chance to win. It's pretty easy to say his confidence is growing, and our confidence in him is growing also.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Business
  • Confidence
  • Win

• Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Think
  • Writing A Book
  • Unpublished

• Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. You are baby-sitting rich, spoiled kids... I don't know where you parked your car!

  

  Joe Montana
  • Time
  • Job
  • Kids

• Sometimes there are films like 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' which turned out better than it deserved to be, but in the case of 'Edge of Tomorrow,' there was just such enthusiasm from fans.

  

  Doug Liman

• Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

  

  Darrell Issa
  • Great
  • Sun

• In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

  

  Chris Argyris
  • Facts
  • Management
  • Behavior