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“For knowledge work to flourish, the workplace must be one where people feel able to share their knowledge! This means sharing concerns, questions, mistakes, and half-formed ideas.”
― Amy C. Edmondson, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

“Finding out that you are wrong is even more valuable than being right, because you are learning.”
― Amy C. Edmondson, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“A good deal of the corporate planning I have observed is like a ritual rain dance; it has no effect on the weather that follows, but those who engage in it think it does. Moreover, it seems to me that much of the advice and instruction related to corporate planning is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather.”
― Russell Ackoff

“Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.”
― Russell Ackoff

“You rarely improve an organisation as a whole by improving the performance of one or more of its parts”
― Russell L. Ackoff, Systems Thinking for Curious Managers: With 40 New Management f-Laws

“Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.”
― Russell L. Ackoff, The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables

“All through school, we are shown that making a mistake is a bad thing, something for which we are downgraded. This reveals how little conventional schools are interested in learning, because we never learn by doing something right; we already know how to do it. Doing it right does confirm what we already know, and this has some value, but it contributes nothing to learning. We”
― Russell L. Ackoff, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track

“The less we understand a phenomenon, the more variables we require to explain it.”
― Russell Ackoff

“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“It is not enough to do your best, you must know what to do, and then do your best.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!”
― W. Edwards Deming

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“Inspection to improve quality is too late, ineffective, costly.
Quality comes not from inspection, but from the improvement of the production process.”
― W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis