Quotes About Integration

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas of life.

First, I would recommend that you not "see" this material as a book, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf.

beneficial results possible. They become the basis of a person's character, creating an empowering center of correct maps from which an individual can effectively solve problems, maximize opportunities, and continually learn and integrate other principles in an upward spiral of growth. They are also habits of effectiveness because they are based on a paradigm of effectiveness that is in harmony with a natural law, a principle I call the

Effectiveness lies in the balance.

the physical, the spiritual, the mental, and the social/emotional.

Stephen R. Covey

Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It means

that the relationship which the parts have to each other is a part in and of itself.

For Win/Win to work, the systems have to support it.

writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds.

I like to include you in the definition of me . - Danny Daniels

There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.

What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.

iPhone just synced perfectly with toaster. All is well.

They extolled America as the "great melting pot" and in the next breath engaged in dangerous games, pitting one group against another, then summed it all up by saying that "Americans needed to come together!

The more independent the subsystems are, the more you make it safe to focus on one bit of complexity at a time. Carefully defined objects separate concerns so that you can focus on one thing at a time. Packages provide the same benefit at a higher level of aggregation.

Conscious content now is known in the context of a consistent locus or point of view that can integrate that knowledge. Infantile amnesia begins to drop away. Events are held in memory in a verbal temporal order. A conscious person shows up—not as the object of reflection but as a perspective from which knowing can occur.

Don't compromise, when you can synergize.

Product people are business people, first and foremost. They work across functions and serve to integrate or synchronize the work of others so that products and portfolios can be planned, developed, launched, and managed.

How do you minimize product duplication?" or "How do you rationalize product investments on a global basis?

A single piece of information designed to flow through the entire ecosystem of news will create more value than a piece of information sealed up in a glass box.

Once key ideas from idea-spaces that otherwise had little contact with one another were connected, they began, quasi-autonomously, to make new sense in terms of one another, leading to the emergence of a whole that was more than the sum of its parts.

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine.

The secret to organizational inspiration is to build information networks that allow hunches to persist and disperse and recombine. Instead of cloistering your hunches in brainstorm sessions or R&D labs, create an environment where brainstorming is something that is constantly running in the background, throughout the organization, a collective version of the 20-percent-time concept that proved so successful for Google and 3M.