A system is a whole that cannot be divided into independent parts. . . . The performance of a system is not the sum of the performance of its parts taken separately, but the product of their interactions. —Russell L. Ackoff, The Democratic Corporation
The more developed individuals, organizations, or societies becomes the less they depend on resources and the more they can do with whatever resources they have. —Russell L. Ackoff, The Democratic Corporation
It would be better for everybody to work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. —W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. —Albert Einstein
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must become the changes we wish to see in the world. —Mohandas Gandhi
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things in the right environment. —Dr. Ko Nishimura, Solectron Corp.
Risk recedes as knowledge grows, and as knowledge grows, so does the firm's capacity to move forward. —Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad, Competing for the Future
And this above all— to thine own self be true: And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not be false to any man. —William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
To achieve greatness: "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." —Arthur Ashe
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