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Why a World War I artifact has become the de facto tool used in twenty-first-century project management has never been quite clear to me.
“In the complex world, the notion of “cause” itself is suspect; it is either nearly impossible to detect or not really defined—another reason to ignore newspapers, with their constant supply of causes for things.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
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“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight. It is essential that the critic should keep himself constantly aware of that fact.”
― Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
― Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
“People who struggle with kaizen do so not because the steps are hard but because they are easy. They can’t overcome the cultural training that says change must always be instantaneous, it must always require steely self-discipline, and it must never be pleasurable.”
― One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
― One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
“what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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