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He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

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Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.

Coincide, Expertise, Rank
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Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

Business, Effective, Grouchy, Hypocritical, Organization

A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

Concrete, Opportunity, Outcomes, Small, Unimportant, Winning

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Achieve, Centralization, Decentralization, Real, Reliable, Systems

Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

Already, Cause, Causes, Imposed, Maps, World

Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.

Literally, Managers, Orderliness, People, Single, Variables
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