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

— Arie de Geus

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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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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

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