Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them (Alfred North Whitehead).

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system (Stephen R. Covey).

“Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.

Measure me in an illogical way; don’t complain when I act illogically” (Throughput accounting theory)

“It appears that all units of reality are comprised of two basic elements in an asymmetrical binary relationship in dynamic interaction…” (p.38) “As noted above, one of the basic ideas that underlies my thinking, one of the images I have in mind when I contemplate the universe, is that it is constructed upon a simple pattern of order that may be seen in any and all phenomena, no matter how complex. The simple pattern is that of a binary relationship, recognized in a binary system. The implication here is that everything in nature, everything in the universe, is composed of networks of two elements, or two parts in functional relationship to each other…”(p.39) “The most fundamental phenomenon in the universe is relationship.”(p.44)

- Jonas Salk

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. (Theodore Rubin).

“It takes one woman nine months to have a baby. It cannot be done in one month by impregnating nine women”.