O Quotes
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“Organizations are set up by and large to support an ideal type of worker, what I call a prototype, to succeed.
And research consistently has shown even across geographies, and across different cultures, that this is by and large a man. So, this tends to be somebody, you know, when we think of a manager, we think of somebody that’s male, but not only that, but they tend to have sort of masculine attributes. So, white, middle class, heterosexual, sort of able-bodied male.
But importantly it’s also someone that’s willing to engage in sort of dominant, assertive, aggressive, competitive, exclusionary behaviors to get ahead. And they are willing also to make work the number one priority, so that means it’s also somebody that’s free from dependent care responsibilities.
The problem with prototypes is people who tend to succeed in organizations are people who best fit the prototype. You fit in almost by default, you walk in, and it’s easier for you to access networks, it’s easier for you to be sponsored, it’s easier for people to see you as a leader just simply because you match in their mind what good looks like when it comes to leadership.
But the reverse is also true. So, the more ways that you differ from this ideal standard, the more challenges you’re going to experience trying to advance at work. And this is true for both men and women, which is a really important point to make. The barriers are not just something that women experience, men also experience challenges to that.
And so, what the system has got wrong is that since the beginning of time, since organizations have been around, they’ve pretty much been hardwired with this ideal standard in mind. In many ways, what we’re rarely getting right, or rarely trying to fix around the system, is how we value difference. So, can we create an environment where different types of individuals can succeed.”
“Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.”
“Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.”
“Organizations aren't loyal; they can't be. They have to be nimble, they have to change. That means everybody in every organization will have one eye on his or her own brand, and the other eye on the organization of which he or she is a part. And the first loyalty - self-loyalty - is becoming more and more dominant, simply as a survival strategy. I'm in no way blaming anyone here; this is just simply a fact of life.”
“Organizations can't bring peace, for peace begins with the individual - it begins with you. And so long as you rely on these organizations to bring peace in your surroundings, peace shall remain merely an issue for the celebrities to exploit as a means to attract more followers.”
Source: Fabric of Humanity
“Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.”
Source: The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956
“Organizations change policies to suit their business objectives and send cultural signals for people to modify their behaviors.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Organizations, companies or individuals without core values are exactly like a boat without an anchor; it can be easy tossed to and fro following any direction the wind blows.”
“Organizations do not start expanding their network until they find themselves in need of. People rightly wonder about the sincerity of your intentions. By that time, the network should already be in place and have a solid basis of reciprocity and trust.”
“Organizations don't break people by accident. They do it by design-and then call it culture.”
“Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.”
“Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.”
Source: Thinking About Management
“Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.”
Source: Hesselbein on Leadership
“Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.”
Source: Excellence Now: Purpose
“Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
Source: The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Full-length Play
“Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.”
“Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message”
“Organizations have to come to grips with the fact that tests of adaptive capability aren't always pleasant. Learning can be a powerful emotional event, and organizations have to be cognizant of that. They must understand that those who complete high-quality executive education programs are going to see the organization with fresh eyes after they return. Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.”
“Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.”
“organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.”
“Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.”
“Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp ...Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal.
You cannot go to another country and make a plan for it. The cultural context is so different from what you know that you will not understand much of what you see. I would never come to the US and claim to understand what's going on, even in the African American culture. People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked.
That includes women. Most especially women ...
To outsiders like the UN, these soldiers were a problem to be managed. But they were our children.”
Source: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
“Organizations like the World Bank and Interpol have estimated that the global scale of illegal logging generates somewhere between $51 billion and $157 billion annually. Thirty percent of the world's wood trade is illegal, and an estimated 80 percent of all Amazonian wood harvested today is poached. (In Cambodia that number jumps to 90 percent.)”
Source: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
“Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.”
“Organizations must leverage the latest information and technologies to design, build, scale, and optimize competency and improve business maturity continuously and systematically.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.”
“Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.”
“Organizations seek to implement change because they acknowledge that the present version of the business is insufficient and that to ensure business continuity the business must manifest a new version of itself.”
“Organizations should both develop the updated digital practices to manage performance and the digital methodologies to unleash the business potential.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“Organizations should say and do the things they ACTUALLY believe.”
“Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.”
“Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.”
“Organizations that skip this vital step of socializing the charter with leadership ... often have to navigate through and around obstacles that would otherwise not exist”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Organizations today must take the holistic digital management practices to harness cross-functional communication and collaboration.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“Organizations which design systems ...are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of the organizations.. the larger an organization is, the less flexibility it has and the more pronounced the phenomenon”
Source: The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
“Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.”
“Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.”
“Organize and execute around priorities.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.”
“Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.”
“Organize before they rise!”
“Organize competitions to let the local people see that your sharpshooters shoot well. But don't allow the bodies of dead terrorists to be robbed. Don't show damaged bodies of terrorists in the village square to try to show 'this is what we can do'. This behavior may frighten the people but damages the image of a caring state.”
“Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we canbe of value to other nations of the world and then organize to accomplish the things that you decide to want. Anddon't make decisions with the interest of youth alone before you. Make your decisions because they are good for the nation as a whole.”
“Organize kitleler, toplumların hayatında daima önemli bir rol oynamıştır.”
Source: Psychologie des foules
“Organize one's values in the order of their worth”
“Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.”
“Organize their money on a chopping board. Sort out your worth.
$15,000 for outdated textbooks K-12.
$1,000 for a lifetime of flu vaccinations.
$8 an hour to help someone else make money.
$300 a year for food coupons.
$1,000 additional salary for any job that has a chance of expected death.
$600 co-pay on medication for an illness they cause you.
$2,000 for social security.
$15,000 for pension.
$150,000 for the average life insurance policy. $250,000 for a doctor’s fatal mistake.
$350,000 if the doctor made it in a different state.
2/5 of a soul lost in the workplace.
3/5 of a soul lost to fuck for food.
$4,000 to bury someone in the soil.
And there you have you. Easy to make. Affordable. Special.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Organize your reality according to your strength; organize your
reality according to your playfulness; according to your dreams;
according to your joy; according to your hopes - and then you can
help those who organize their reality according to their fears.”
“Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words