November 2009
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“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them....”
– A Collection of 60 Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes About Life,Design and Apple
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“Who am I then? Tell me first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll...”
– Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
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“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it...”
– Red Queen’s race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“The self, as that which can be an object to itself, is essentially a social...”
– George Herbert Mead, Mind Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Edited by Charles W. Morris). Chicago: University of Chicago (1934).
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Contemporary panopticism of the self
“Like Bentham’s Panopticon we have taken on board - within ourselves - the language games and associated subjectivities of Foucauldian “guardians” of all kinds, inciting ourselves to display and communicate the selves expected of us and that we assume others, in turn, share with us. This contemporary panopticism is a massive set of language games we engage in virtually...
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“When they came to explore the nature of organizational learning Chris Argyris...”
– Donald Schon (Schön) - learning, reflection and change
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from Competence to Capability
“One of the most recent models to challenge traditional concepts of learning and which looks at outcomes as well as process is that of Capability (Stephenson & Weil, 1992). Capable people are those who: know how to learn; are creative; have a high degree of self-efficacy; can apply competencies in novel as well as familiar situations; and work well with others. In comparison to...