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Arie de Geus Quotes

born 1930 Netherlands

Arie P. de Geus (born 1930) is a Dutch business executive and business theorist, who was the head of Shell Oil Company's Strategic Planning Group and is a public speaker. De Geus made seminal contributions to the concept of the learning organization.

Netherlands
Business theorists
Businesspeople

Random Arie de Geus quote

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The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

To me it was so natural that companies should seek their own survival. I had seen nothing else in my life. Companies struggle to keep going and to grow, for as long as possible.

A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arie de Geus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.