O Quotes
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“Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.”
Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many of the native pollinators left to replace them. We're in deep trouble; there's no question about it. But ecologists tend to think of something that's going to be bad in ten years as very fast, and of course, politicians only think of things in a two-, four-, six-year cycle.”
“Organisms are themselves expressions of … emergent order and agents of higher levels of emergence.”
Source: How the Leopard Changed Its Spots : The Evolution of Complexity
“Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.”
“Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.”
“Organization after organization has created a culture of, for, and by only round holes, yet they say they want square and triangle and star pegs.”
Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters
“Organization and cleanliness bring spaciousness. When there is space, inspiration and new possibilities can come in. As we organize our physical environment, we also bring a certain organization to our heads, creating spaciousness within us.”
Source: Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life
“Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive.”
“Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.”
Source: Essays, Comments, and Reviews
“Organization and mutual aid are essential aspects in many animal cultures, including elephants, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Zoos, however, are places wherein that culture is restricted, altered, or even destroyed. This is done, whether intentionally or not, through the removal of autonomy, the break up of the family unit, restrictions on corporeal movement, continuous transfer of animals from one facility to next, and in the alteration of other living patterns. Psychologists call this a process of alienation and institutionalization. Hence, within these species, what we tend to see in zoos is a much more individualistic-based community.”
Source: Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
“Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.”
Source: My American Journey
“Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”
Source: My American Journey
“Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.”
“Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must all act today in a concerted manner, that should not be the ground of an organization.”
“Organization is a masculine trait, cleanliness a feminine one. Cleanliness is next to godliness because manliness is godliness.”
Source: Alpha
“Organization is key to applying rapid learning strategies effectively. Students need to be highly organized to stay engaged and motivated to maximize the benefits of rapid learning.”
“Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
“Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.”
“Organization is the Devil's work.”
“organization is the religion of the single parent.”
“Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.”
Source: Organize Your Life and More
“Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.”
Source: The Laws of Simplicity
“Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.”
Source: The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi
“Organization structure defines the culture.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.”
Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
“Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.”
“Organizational culture is simply the response of an organization to its political influences, both internal and external.”
“Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.”
Source: It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
“Organizational development is part of the digital strategy, and digital strategy equals to business strategy with digital new normal.”
Source: Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit
“Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.”
“Organizational Excellence' would reflect the organization's ability to make sufficient commitment to clinch and apply progressive changes in the system through updating information with applied decision making, overhauling structural responsibilities from time to time, strengthen people’s management, learning/training systems, and periodical improvisation of work process ( work flow links). With the strapping leadership of the top management, strategical partnerships are resourcefully tapped and managed which in turn reverberate impressing a positive impact on their people, customers/clientele, clientele’s business, organization's business and in turn end up contributing to the infrastructure of the nation they serve with a broader impact made on the society at large.”
“Organizational Fibrillation [OF]: Frenetic, irregular, or unsynchronized activity, further characterized by its unproductive nature, resulting from disorganized signals and erratic impulses, ending with the collapse of the organization’s ability to operate efficiently or effectively, absent an intervention.”
Source: The Workplace Zombie: One Bureaucrat’s Path to Better Understanding the Virus and Its Vectors
“Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.”
“Organizational performance is impacted the most by alignment.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Organizational politics is an inescapable reality of corporate and public life.”
Source: Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Organizational Procurement is a tight balancing act between “cost and quality” on one side and “time and compliance” on the other side, yet a seasoned procurement specialist keeps it evenly balanced.”
“Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.”
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“Organizational restructuring is something that should take place within a company fairly regularly. With our modern day economy being as dynamic as it is, and with change being as prevalent as it is, companies need to be adaptive and flexible - and that requires regular restructuring.”
“Organizational structure and management style are those two factors that we always forget to analyze when the performance of our businesses goes down.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.”
“Organizational success comes when IT and business act from “IT vs. business” to IT is business” - a true partnership.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.”
Source: People and Performance
“Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim to becoming a project, from being a "skunk works" effort to becoming an official, mainstream effort, from being an unfounded program to a funded process, and so on.”
“Organizations are moving from doing digital by experimenting some digital technologies to going digital via expanding to all dimensions for leading the holistic digital transformation.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“Organizations are moving from doing digital via experimenting some digital technologies to going digital via expanding to all dimensions for leading the holistic digital transformation.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.”
Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking
“Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.”
Source: The Greening of America
“Organizations 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.”
Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)
“Organizations are perfectly designed to get the results that they get.”