Matthias Orgler

“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

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

“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