 It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system, for the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions...  Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition - Page 1by Everett M. Rogers - 2003 - 576 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1974 - 282 pages
...painful. To quote an infamous political theorist, Xiecolo Machiavelli : '•It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful...more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. Where the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions... | |
 | National Computer Graphics Association (U.S.). Conference - Computer graphics - 1980 - 340 pages
...CAD/CAM system: "It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more uncertain of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution,... | |
 | Robert H. Hayes, Steven C. Wheelwright, Kim B. Clark - Industries - 1988 - 456 pages
...including simple resistance to change. As Machiavelli pointed out almost 500 years ago in The Prince: "There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful...more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions... | |
 | P.A. Neher, Ragnar Arnason, Nina Mollett - Business & Economics - 1989 - 566 pages
...Economics of Fisheries Management: a Symposium. Vancouver: Institute of Introduction There is nothing more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things ... the initiator has the emnity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution,... | |
 | M.V. Gandhi, B.D. Thompson - Technology & Engineering - 1992 - 330 pages
...evidenced by an often cited statement made in 1513 by Niccol6 Machiavelli that 'it must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful...more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution... | |
 | A. Claire Cutler, Mark W. Zacher - Business & Economics - 1992 - 444 pages
...that is, a more effective integration of a truly multilateral trading system. Machiavelli has written: 'There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful...more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiators have the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system... | |
| |
