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.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
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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.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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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.
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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.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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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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If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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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.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
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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.
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Legislative reforms in the 1990s and the public/private structure led managements to expand the GSEs' balance sheets to enormous size, underpinned by wafer-thin slivers of capital, driving high shareholder returns and very high compensation for management.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
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In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.
