
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
Source: Quality, Productivity and Competitive Position, (1982), p. 352–353
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
Source: 1990s and later, Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), p. 205
“The work of managing a natural environment is inescapably a work of local knowledge.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 53.
On Creating Teamwork
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), Systems Engineering Methods (1967), p. 24; First paragraph of Ch. 2. System Organization, Scheduling, and Record-Keeping
Newsnight 30th March 2011
Source: BBC iplayer, 37 mins online http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0101g7l/Newsnight_30_03_2011/
It is time for our national conversation to move away from discussing whether Brexit will happen to a debate on how to make Brexit work for everyone in the UK http://www.jonathanarnott.co.uk/2017/02/it-is-time-for-our-national-conversation-to-move-away-from-discussing-whether-brexit-will-happen-to-a-debate-on-how-to-make-brexit-work-for-everyone-in-the-uk/ (February 13, 2017)