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Action without theory is aimless
For this week’s quote of the week I have taken a paragraph out of Pascal’s book Getting the Right Things Done:

“Action without theory is aimless; theory without action is lifeless. Effective leaders move fluidly up and down a ladder of abstraction, between lower-level facts and higher level concepts. If you speak at high levels of abstraction without having reasoned your way to them from lower levels, what you say is unlikely to be founded in fact. Similarly, if you’re mired in lower-level data unable to extract the meaning, what you say is unlikely to motivate team members.”
- 14 Sep 2008, 8:07 pm
Ralf Lippold wrote: > For this week’s quote of the week I have taken a paragraph out of > Pascal’s book Getting the Right Things Done: > > “Action without theory is aimless; theory without action is lifeless. > Effective leaders move fluidly up and down a ladder of abstraction, > between lower-level facts and higher level concepts. If you speak at > high levels of abstraction without having reasoned your way to them > from lower levels, what you say is unlikely to be founded in fact. > Similarly, if you’re mired in lower-level data unable to extract the > meaning, what you say is unlikely to motivate team members.”