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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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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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 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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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.
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There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.
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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.
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In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
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I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.
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The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act
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I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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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.
