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Quotes About Organizations

The talent myth assumes that people make organizations smart. More often than not, it's the other way around.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
People have too much faith in large organizations," he said. "They trust the accounting firms, which you should never trust because they're incompetent. On a best day they're incompetent, on a bad day they're crooked, and aiding and abetting the fraud, looking the other way.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The more nots you are, the more committees you might end up on. Not being not can mean being less likely to end up doing this kind of work. Given that diversity work is typically less valued by organizations, then not being not can mean having more time to do more-valued work.
~ Sara Ahmed
It is certainly the case that responsibility for diversity and equality is unevenly distributed. It is also the case that the distribution of this work is political: if diversity and equality work is less valued by organizations, then to become responsible for this work can mean to inhabit institutional spaces that are also less valued.
~ Sara Ahmed
of how diversity can be used by organizations as a form of public relations.
~ Sara Ahmed
They'll be fine, Wickersham said. Practice makes perfect. I had to ask. You practice running away? We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills.
~ Scott Westerfeld
The other pillar was more original. It centered on the need to build adaptive learning organizations to succeed in counterinsurgency campaigns, which the manual described as competitions in learning.
~ John A. Nagl
The Lost Cause tradition—as both a version of history and as a racial ideology—is still certainly very much alive in neo-Confederate organizations, on numerous Web sites, among white supremacist groups, in staunch advocates of the Confederate battle flag, and even among some mainstream American politicians.
~ Edward H. Bonekemper III
As a fact, charity organizations, mostly spent money, helping themselves than needy ones; otherwise, there were not remaining the needy ones in the world.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
In other words, expand your use of your giftedness beyond producing the most noticed ideas at work. Use it to attain greater self-insight and to gain wisdom about human beings in groups and organizations.
~ Elaine N. Aron
The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.
~ Anthony Venn-Brown
The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. We overcome by focusing on changing the latter not attacking the former.
~ Anthony Venn-Brown
A person can keep either creativity or money in own mind but never both at the same time and that's the reason the wicked private organizations do not give good amount of money to a creative person but to all crooks.
~ Anuj Somany
College backbenches are often preferred by the organizations for the top position not for their brain but because they are well-trained to make others slog and take the credit of hard workers in own name.
~ Anuj Somany
Organisations find no rationale to increase the salary of the employees, but get often reasons to deduct some amount from it under one or the other pretext.
~ Anuj Somany
Organizations in the private sector go bankrupt , but often not its owner.
~ Anuj Somany
Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management.
~ Frances Hesselbein
I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
~ Jan Schakowsky
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
~ Donella Meadows
Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it.
~ Tristram Stuart
From a global health standpoint, we will look to prevent future pandemics and hold organizations, like the World Health Organization, accountable for their role in providing thorough, accurate information to the world.
~ Ronny Jackson
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.
~ Noam Chomsky
However, the benefits of spaced practice are apparent after 60 days. Since many training organizations don't evaluate learning over time, the benefits of spaced practice are rarely documented. Based on a lot of accumulated evidence, though, spaced practice will give you a better long-term return.
~ Ruth Colvin Clark