The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

- Arie De Geus

Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the comp…

- Arie De Geus

A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn tog…

- Arie De Geus

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

- Arie De Geus

I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the sup…

- Arie De Geus

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true n…

- Arie De Geus