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Quotes from Re-Creating the Corporation — Russell L. Ackoff

1919–2009 United States

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When a business is bought, it is bought for its potential—for its future, not its past.

Re-Creating the Corporation (1999)

A mission statement should define the business that the organization wants to be in, not necessarily what it is in.

Re-Creating the Corporation (1999)

Over time, every way of thinking generates important problems that it cannot solve.

Re-Creating the Corporation (1999)

Another common deficiency is the failure of some panaceas to take into account a social system's developmental responsibilities to its stakeholders.

Re-Creating the Corporation (1999)

A corporation that fails to see itself as an instrument of all its stakeholders will probably fail to use them, and be used by them, effectively enough to survive in the emerging environment.

Re-Creating the Corporation (1999)

Every culture has a shared pattern of thinking. It is the cement that holds a culture together, gives it unity. A culture's characteristic way of thinking is imbedded in its concept of the nature of reality, its world view.

Re-Creating the Corporation (1999)

A change of world view not only brings about profound cultural changes, but also is responsible for what historians call a "change of age." An age is a period of time in which the prevailing world view has remained relatively unchanged.

Re-Creating the Corporation (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Russell L. Ackoff (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.