Quotes About Organizations

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.

Creating organizations that value a growth mindset can create contexts in which more people grow into the knowledgeable, visionary, and responsible leaders we need.

A critical mistake many organizations make in defining something their customers want is they don't pare down that desire to a single focus.

La descripción de las organizaciones de traficantes en México en ese momento mostró que la estructura del campo del tráfico de drogas era predominantemente oligopólica, no estaba "cartelizada" y no había ningún grupo o coalición que hubiese logrado la hegemonía en el mismo.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

Three legal regimes make it possible for religious entities to run child-care centers without having to abide by the usual state licensing requirements. First, some states have exempted religious child-care centers from their licensing system altogether. For example, Missouri exempts "[a]ny child-care facility maintained or operated under the exclusive control of a religious organization[,]" so long as the facility receives no state or federal funding.

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

I have worked with women religious for more than twenty-five years. Shortly after the publication of Leadership and the New Science, a colleague gave me great advice. He said that if I was interested in organizations that worked from a strong sense of values, then I should be working with the military and nuns.

All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them.

Our quest for a successful outcome may end up doing more harm than good to our organizations, our families, and ourselves.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

In Developing Superior Work Teams, Dennis Kinlaw writes, "Two realities are shaping organizational life in America today. The first reality is that all organizations are faced with the same challenge: they will either produce consistently superior services and products, or they will soon not be producing much at all. The second reality is that superior teamwork and developing superior work teams have been demonstrated to be the only consistent method for producing superior goods and services.