External Environment Quotes

• Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.

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  Chris Argyris

  Errors   People   Focus  

  "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.

  4096

• Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

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  Stephen Covey

  People   Blame   Environment  

  4970

• That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

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  Philip Zimbardo

  Religious   Training   Moral  

  3330

• Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.

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  John Zachman

  Architecture   Environment   Enterprise  

  2484

• I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

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  Henry Earl Singleton

  Believe   Topics   Environment  

  4204

• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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  Steve Jobs

  Life   Fear   Failure  

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

  3869

• A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.

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  Carroll Quigley

  Would Be   Culture   Dinosaurs  

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

  5104

• Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.

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  Rene Dubos

  Men   Soul   Body  

  2895

• There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

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  Frederick Soddy

  Sublime   Indifference   Environment  

  Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.27, Courier Corporation

  4684

• Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

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  Bob Harper

  Mean   People   Getting High  

  Bob Harper, Greg Critser (2012). “The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin”, p.13, Ballantine Books

  3726

• The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I'll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is an ego.

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  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational   Powerful   Government  

  1922