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Systems

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188 Quote(s) Found

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Behind every system of actions are a system of beliefs.

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…if the body is repeatedly stressed-out and anxious… all the finely tuned systems designed to protect the body begin to turn against it.

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The world is now changing at a rate at which the basic systems, structures, and cultures built over the past century cannot keep up with the demands placed on them.

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…the reality is that the problem is systemic and directly related to the limitations of hierarchy and basic managerial processes.

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…actions by senior executives clearly signal that the network is not in any way a rogue operation… it is part of a system designed for competing and winning.

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As they mature, organizations evolve naturally toward a single system – a hierarchical organization – at the expense of the entrepreneurial network.

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The inevitable failures of single operating systems hurt us now… they are going to kill us in the future. The twenty-first century will force us all to evolve…

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…hierarchy… begins to quietly yet systematically kill off the network side of an organization.

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Dual systems are a natural part of the evolutionary journey of all successful firms… [but] dual systems that occur naturally do not naturally sustain themselves.

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…a management-driven hierarchy systematically creates competitive complacency, and, when the pressures are great, false urgency.

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