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Management models based on planning and predicting instead of resilient adaptation to changing circumstances are no longer suited to today’s challenges. Organizations must be networked, not siloed, in order to succeed. Their goal must shift
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“If there is one thing certain about English pronunciation it is that there is almost nothing certain about it. No other language in the world has more words spelled the same way and yet pronounced differently.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
“A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know set is to know English.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“At a minimum the name should puzzle foreigners—this is a basic requirement of most British institutions—and ideally it should excite long and inconclusive debate, defy all logical explanation, and evoke images that border on the surreal. Among”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
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