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At the center.

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Brandolini's Law or The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle suggests that creating misinformation is easier and quicker than debunking it, highlighting the challenges of addressing and countering the spread of falsehoods in society.

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All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~ Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

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Peter Senge's 'Five Disciplines' of Learning Organizations.

1. Shared Vision
2. Systems Thinking
3. Mental Models
4. Team Learning
5. Personal Mastery

#PeterSenge #TheFifthDiscipline

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3- Practice is the criterion to measure the correctness of any knowledge.

4- Practice is also the objective of knowledge.

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Four Functions of Practice in the Marxist Theory of Knowledge

1- Practice is the source of all knowledge, past, present and future.

2- Practice is the motive force in the development of knowledge.

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We learn less by doing things right, but much more by doing things wrong and facing failures. Those who have failed many times hold more wisdom than those who have succeeded. This applies to all areas of human knowledge. Indians don't understand & accept this fact.

[Arpita Sharma @ArpitaSharmaaa]

“You didn’t clear UPSC. Why should we follow your strategy?”

I’ve heard this many times.

Let’s talk about it. Not with anger, but with clarity. Because a lot of my fellow teachers face these questions.

Clearing it once and for all.

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Transformational leadership is all about helping people to fully realise & utilize their own potential and creating more leaders at different levels. In this process the leader driving the transformation realises his own potential and becomes a greater leader. #Leadership

[Subroto Bagchi @skilledinodisha]

Read excerpt from the book, The Day the Chariot Moved here. Do tell me if it resonated with you. It is the story of transformation at scale.

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The great leaders reveal true power by attracting people of excellent ability and by allowing key associates the freedom to exercise their own judgment. The person able to give power to those who can effectively exercise it gains more power in return. #Leadership #IChing

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Russell L Ackoff was an American system thinker par excellence. He lists out some truths about organizations which we just deny or ignore, in his book "Management f-Laws". Presenting his 81 witty f-Laws in the tweets below, which aptly describes the managers' everyday behaviour.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-1: You can't teach an old dog or executive new tricks, or even that there are any new tricks.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-2: Knowledge is of two types, explicit and implicit, and knowing this is implicit.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-3: You rarely improve an organization as a whole by improving the performance of one or more of its parts.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-4: There is no point in asking consumers, who do not know what they want, to say what they want.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-5: All managers believe they can do their boss's job better than their boss can, but they forget that their subordinates share the same belief about themselves.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-6: For managers the only conditions under which experience is the best teacher are the ones under which no change takes place.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-7: The level of conformity in an organization is in inverse proportion to its creative ability.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-8: The best reason for recording what one thinks is to discover what one thinks and to organize it in transmittable form.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-9: No corporation should retain a business unit that is worth more outside the corporation than within it.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-10: The amount of irrationality that executives attribute to others is directly proportional to their own.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-11: The future is better dealth with using assumptions than forecasts.

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Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff

Law-12: An organization's planning horizon is same as it's CEO's retirement horizon.