I also have this, from Karl Weick’s brilliant book
The Social Psychology of Organizing
: “Much of the power of planning is explained by the people it puts into contact and the information that these people exchange about current circumstances.”

I used to be dismayed when I discovered that my brilliant ideas were old news. For example, the model of motivation that I describe in “Resistance as a Resource,” turns out to have been invented years ago, and published in Edward E. Lawler III’s “Jossey-Bass classic”
Motivation in Work Organizations.

I’ve learned to see these discoveries as confirmation that my ideas, even if not as original as I’d hoped, are pretty darned good.