Fons Trompenaars quotes

“The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas”
-- Fons Trompenaars

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“The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to the obligations of relationships and unique circumstances.”
-- Fons Trompenaars

Source : Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner (2011). “Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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“Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture”
-- Fons Trompenaars

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“Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.”

Source : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.81, Univ of California Press

“There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?”

“When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.”

“Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.267, iUniverse

“Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.”

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“The least-challenging way to make art for me would be to reinforce decorative formalism or find a way to extend entertainment values. Humor can sometimes be the only way out of this intolerable dilemma. And if that doesn't work, arson.”

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“There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.”

“If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.”

“The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.”

Source : Robert K. Massie (2011). “Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman”, p.449, Random House

“Love cannot reconcile with deception”