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Quotes About Organizations

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today
~ Nancy Duarte
In Hartford, Connecticut, after calls from religious organizations, theater owners pledged that Fatty's face would never again be seen on their screens.
~ William J. Mann
Most of the big problems we encounter in organizations or society are ambiguous and evolving. They don't look like burning-platform situations, where we need people to buckle down and execute a hard but well-understood game plan. To solve bigger, more ambiguous problems, we need to encourage open minds, creativity, and hope.
~ Chip Heath
This "moment-spotting" habit can be unnatural. In organizations, for instance, we are consumed with goals. Time is meaningful only insofar as it clarifies or measures our goals. The goal is the thing.
~ Chip Heath
Proven conspiracies very often involve a banality and institutional disorganization that is conspicuously missing from the average conspiracy theory, in which countless numbers of conspirators from multiple organizations are able to march in evil lockstep ad infinitum.
~ Chris Fleming
El cambio, el choque de culturas, la creciente escala de todo y la complejidad no van a desaparecer sino a acelerarse. Las organizaciones exitosas han entendido a golpes que la actitud de actuar como si nada estuviera pasando ya no les va a funcionar. Nosotros tenemos que darnos cuenta de que a nosotros tampoco.
~ Chris Lowney
The following biological toxins are known by the security services to have been weaponised:   Smallpox Anthrax Plague Pneumonic Tularemia Viral Equine Encephalitis Botulinum Ricin T-2 Mycatoxin   It is not known how many terrorist organisations are in possession of these weapons.
~ Chris Ryan
the idea of a crusade against social modernity was to be found not only in the market towns of north-central Castile, or in the remote rural north (most obviously among the theocratic and pugnacious Carlists of Navarre) but also in larger urban centres and the big cities, where Catholic youth became activists in the new mass organizations of the right.
~ Helen Graham
More organizations than ever are conducting business online. An expanding digital footprint and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks have created a growing urgency to secure that data and the resources organizations are deploying.
~ Ken Xie
Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders.
~ Leeza Gibbons
You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.
~ Prince Philip
Targeted ads, I think, are useful because I don't want to see all the crap. I'm not interested in buying a Mercedes Benz, but I am interested in buying a new MacBook Air. So if organizations like Facebook can actually make the ads more relevant to me, if they know what I am interested in, I have no problem with that.
~ Rick Smolan
There are people working in arts organizations who feel that in recent years there has been a sacrifice of quality and excellence in favor of ticking the right boxes and using the right buzz words because that's what their masters tell them.
~ Munira Mirza
Finding innovative ways to deliver vaccines to children in developing countries is at the heart of our work. The very fact that we don't have people on the ground but rather work in an alliance with other organizations is itself an innovation that was the basis of GAVI's establishment in 2000.
~ Seth Berkley
Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.
~ Jim Ratcliffe
Consequences are that heavy TV viewers trust other people less, and join fewer voluntary organizations, than do people who are not heavy TV viewers. Before blaming TV-viewing for those behaviors, one might object: which is the cause and which is the result, or are the two sets of phenomena just correlated without either being the cause of the other?
~ Jared Diamond
I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.
~ Chelsea Clinton
Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
~ John Wooden
Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.
~ Joseph Stalin
People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.
~ Unknown
So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government.
~ Betty Hill
My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.
~ Cherie Blair
I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
~ Saffron Burrows
I strongly support organizations like the ACLU that defend basic freedoms and I have for a 25-plus years.
~ Daryl Morey