Thomas A. Stewart quotes

Thomas A. Stewart quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.”
-- Thomas A. Stewart

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“Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.”
-- Thomas A. Stewart

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“In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.”
-- Thomas A. Stewart

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“Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.”
“The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flowâ€¦”
“Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.”
“Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.”
“The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".”

Source : "Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 139), 1969.
“If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.”
“Hezbollah has never been a terrorist organisation!”
“I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.”

Source : "Amanda Holden: 'I'm not the slapper the press portrayed me as'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.
“There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.”
“It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.”

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