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“The problem when solved will be simple.”

Anonymous, Sign on the wall of the General Motots research laboratory at Dayton ,Ohio . Quoted in Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (Al Ries & Jack Trout; 1981) 

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“Threat is dealt with by defensive reasoning… This in turn, produces learning systems in organizations that are actually against understanding how to deal with threatening issues so they can be eliminated.”

Chris Argyris (b. 1923) US academic & organisational behaviour theorist, Strategy, Change and Defensive Routines (1985) 

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“You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem.”

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-98)US civil rights activist, speech, San Francisco (1968) 

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“A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.”

Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese philosopher, administrator & writer, Analects  (7500 BC) 

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“We must bear in mind that the statistical relationships we work with, embodied in our econometric models, are only loose approximations of the underlying reality… Some fog always obstructs our vision, but when the structure of the economy is changing, the fog is considerably denser than at other times.”

Roger W. Ferguson Jr (b. 1951) US economist, vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. On the problems facing the Federal Reserve Board in deciding policy. Speech, New Economy Forum, HaasSchool ofBusiness , University ofCalifornia ‘Conversation with Leaders of the “New Economy”’ (9 May 2000) 

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“What is the answer to the question? The problem. How is the problem resolved? By displacing the question… We tmust think problematically rather than question and answer dialectically.”

Michel Foucault (1926-84) French philosopher, ‘Theatrum Philosophicum’, Language, Counter-Memory, Practice (1977) 

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“If key aspects of the business shift around you, the very process of genetic selection that got you and your associates where you are might retard your ability to recognize the new trends. A sign of this might be that all of a sudden some people ‘don’t seem to get it’… When they don’t get it or you don’t get it, it may not be because of encroaching age; it may be because the ‘it’ has changed around you.”

Andrew S. Grove (b. 1936) US entrepreneur, author & chairman of Intel Corporation. Referring to the signs of an approaching strategic inflection point, Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career (1996) 

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“Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.”

John Harvey-Jones (1924-2008) British management adviser, author & former chairman of ICI, on his approach as a ‘Mr Fix-It’ for troubled businesses, Independent on Sunday (11 March 1990) 

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“The greatest risk lies in not knowing what you don’t know. In a fast changing marketplace such as the Internet, this trap seems to be so open and so wide.”

William (Walid) Mougayar, US management theorist. Referring to the challenge to managers of traditional industries of the new economy, Opening Digital Markets (1997) 

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“Difficulties, opposition, criticism – these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and coming out on top.”

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-90) Indian diplomat, quoted in The Envoy Extraordinary (Vera Brittain; 1965) 

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