Dale E. Jones quotes

“Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.”
-- Dale E. Jones

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“The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.”

“A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.”

Source : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book IV, Chapter 7, 1735.

“To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.”

“If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.”

“Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 117), 1968.

“Transparency and detail are everything in science.”

“One man's transparency is another's humiliation.”

Source : "Collaboration 2. 0: Technology and Best Practices for Successful". Book by Gerry Adams. Happy About, p. 93, January 1, 2008.

“Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.”

“But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.”

“Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.”