A batch of the best highlights from what Lukas's read, .
The leaders of thought and of action grope their way forward to a new life, realizing, sometimes dimly, sometimes clear-sightedly, that the life of material gain, whether for a nation or an individual, is of value only as a foundation, only as there is added to it the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals.
Citizenship in a Republic
Theodore Roosevelt
This is not to say that you can let up for one minute in striving to have the best talent. But competitive advantage is found in making the organization whole greater than the sum of the parts. It is this integrating and leveraging function of organization that creates competitive advantage.
Victory Through Organization
Dave Ulrich, David Kryscynski, Wayne Brockbank, Mike Ulrich
Systems can’t be controlled, but they can be designed and redesigned. We can’t surge forward with certainty into a world of no surprises, but we can expect surprises and learn from them and even profit from them. We can’t impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone.