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" The most successful companies are those that think jointly technological change, work design and the changes in internal social relationships.” Antoine Riboud.
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What Steve Jobs can teach us

January 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Quotations

I found a best of Steve Jobs’quotations.
Some of them should be taught at school and studied by many companies’ boards.
• “Always have a beginner mind”. It’s true that I have the impression that I do things better when i try to envisage thme with new eyes rather than trying to apply my certainties and my [...]

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Quotations between provocation and good sense

June 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Quotations, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Sometimes I find sentences which are really worth by themselves, that have a lot of meaning, whether in or out of their original context. I often bookmark them but this time I think they’re worth a post. As a matter of fact I find two series of nice quotations in two posts I recently read [...]

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Einstein thought about Enterprise 2.0 ROI

February 6th, 2008 · View Comments · Quotations, enterprise 2.0

…in fact he could have !
Didn’t he say
“What counts cannot alway be counted and what can be counted doesn’t always count”.

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The need for agility

June 23rd, 2007 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Quotations, social computing

I think agility is (and will increasingly be) one of the main cause of success for enterprises. And it’s obvious social computing is one of the levers that will help enterprises going this way.
Agility also means change, adaptation…and I like those words from Jack Welch (former GE’s CEO) that totally fit the situation
“To [...]

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