Roger Smith Quotes

# Individuals are trained to recognize recurring elements and common themes.

We hope this car will be less labor intensive, less material intensive, less everything intensive than anything we have done before.

# They learn to arrange their thoughts in logical order, to write and speak clearly and economically.

# They are accustomed to a relatively unstructured and unsupervised research and discovery process and feel comfortable with nonconformity.

# They learn to tolerate ambiguity and to bring order out of confusion.

The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system system.

# They have learned to replace confrontation with cooperation and the principles of conflict resolution.

# They have learned sideways thinking, the cross classifying habit of mind that comes from learning many different ways to look at things.

# They are trained to see relationships between things that may seem different.

The ultimate impact of the liberal arts on the art of management, then, is a major contribution to the evolution of an ethical and humanistic capitalism -- a system that stimulates innovation, fosters excellence, enriches society, and dignifies work.

# They need to see the worth of the impact of what they do, to understand its place in the larger schemes of things.

# They learn that the effective management of change comes from the habit of being receptive to new information, to new paths to traditional goals, even to new goals.

# They have learned to uncover truths in many forms, and that an answer need not be final.

I don’t expect them to build a big stone monument to me; that’s not my goal in life. I’d like to think that if I did anything extraordinary, it was the work that we did in getting the corporation ready for the 21st century.

# They have insight into the fit of form with function.