Mindsets: Progress versus Change…

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their mindscannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw (1856 to 1950, an Irish playwright, film and theatre critic, and polemicist). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. Reference The Nobel Foundation (1925) George Bernard Shaw. Available  from World Wide Web: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/shaw-bio.html. [Accessed: 24 July, 2016]. Advertisements

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Friction of War: Friendly Relations & Comradeship

“Friendly relations contribute a lot to diminish the friction of war. Comradeship is the oil in the machine.” Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895 to 1970) Commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was an English soldier, military historian and military theorist.

Controversy & Mediocrity…

“An organization which discourages controversy, encourages mediocrity.” Unknown

Management Fads, Just Another Fad!

“A US psychologist, Carl Rabstejnek, has identified at least 100 management fads since the second world war, from ‘acceptable risk’ at one end of the alphabet to ‘zero defects’ at the other. He argues that fads reflect managers’ need to appear to be ‘in the know’ and to talk the language of change even when… Read More