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Quotable Quotes


"If an organization is to understand its own strengths and weaknesses, and if it is to make informed strategic choices based on realistic assessments of external and internal factors, it must study and understand its own culture."
- Edgar Schein

"Our reason for telling stories is not simply to repeat the past, but to bring the past into the present for the sake of the future."
- Carl Dudley

"Since the mission of an institution is the primary force that holds it together, the degree of success in achieving that mission must be a central concern...The mission of an institution is its ultimate reason for existence."
- Cyril Houle

"Like oarsmen, we generally move forward while looking backward, but not until we truly see the past - truly understand it - can we truly move forward and upward."
- Warren Bennis

"It's always messy and a little chaotic for a while when you're changing things. History doesn't look like history when you're living through it; it only looks tidy later."
-  John W. Gardner

"This agreement [negotiated with the help of Ki ThoughtBridge] will result in saving millions of dollars in community health care cost while preserving the quality, service and access that our members deserve.

The hospitals are to be commended for working together to develop a collaborative, community solution to the problem of increasing health care costs."

- Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Parent Organization for Blue Cross Blue Shield of the Area