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If we saw tomorrow’s newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.
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Attributed to Boulding in: Russell Ackoff "Russell Ackoff: A Lifetime of Systems Thinking; Editor’s note" in: Leverage Points, Issue 115.

 

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