"Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less."
Bauman, Z. (1997). Postmodernity and its discontents. NY: New York University Press
"To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transforamtion of ourselves and the world - and at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are. Modern environments and experience cut across boundaries of geography and ethnicity, of class and nationality, of religion and ideology: in this sense, modernity can be said to unite all mankind. But it is a paradoxical unity, a unity of disunity: it pours us all into a maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal, of struggle and contradiction, of ambiguity and anguish. To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, so Marx said, "all that is solid melts into air" "(p.15)
Berman, M. (1982). All that is solid melts into air. NY: Simon & Schuster
"The essential problem in self-design is to make a teacher out of the learner - that is, to have the same people performing both functions. When an organization finds a present design inadequate, it avoids having someone from the outside some in to rewire the organization; it does the rewiring itself" (p. 409)
Weick, K. E. (2001). Making sense of the organization. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
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