Quotes by Learning Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance. Peter Block learningpeopleknowledge The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement. Peter Block issueslearningknowledge Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life. Peter Block learningteachingchildren We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become. Peter Block institutionslearningifs To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return. Peter Block learningmeanknowledge To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure. Peter Block learningteachingadventure You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears. Peter Drucker learningtwoknowledge The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a week ago, never mind three years ago! Peter Leko learningflyingyears I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it? Peter Lynch learningkeyshistory I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline. Peter Drucker learningyearsknowledge The basic economic resource - the means of production - Peter Drucker learningmeanknowledge A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter Drucker learningworkknowledge No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement. Peter McWilliams lessons-to-be-learnedlearningstupid Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible. Peter Ralston learningwishletting-go The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER. Peter Drucker learninguniqueknowledge In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. Peter McWilliams learningworkinspirational Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us. Peter Senge learninguniqueknowledge In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts. Peter Drucker volunteerlearningknowledge Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder Peter Senge learningknowledgefall EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. Peter Thiel zuckerberglearningbusiness«6869707172737475767778»
