“The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.” HelpingGirlOpportunitySportsAbilityLeaderPositionKingsHonorUniqueOrganizationFoundationImpactExcitedActiveDevelopingLegacy Author:Angela Ruggiero
“The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.” AbilityOrganizationSizeRelated Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.” DoeFormAbilityMaterialsUniqueMachinesOrganizationUnityProductionsSpeedClarityGoodsExpensesMechanismDocumentariesContinuityDiscretionReductionPrecisionFrictionSubordination Author:Max Weber
“There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.” MenStatesAbilitySecretInfluenceModernCitizensOrganizationAverageTechniqueSeatsElitesPenetrateAverage ManMental Power Author:Jacques Ellul
“And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.” AbilityRolesChangedNewsOrganizationAbuseInstitutionsTraditionalJournalismJournalistTransformedSusceptibility Author:Joan Konner
“Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.” MenAbleLanguageImaginationAbilityAnimalCommunicationCapacityOrganizationSizeAbstractComplexityLives Of Others Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.” HumansLooksEndsEyeSpiritGoalGrowthCommunityAbilityRaceEmotionTroubleFeetCenturyIdentityDrawsOrganizationDifficultyManageMaturityHuman RaceDesperateAdolescence20th CenturyRapidsUncontrollableFalteringRapid GrowthSearch For Identity Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.” MenSelfYoungPurposeReadingOpportunityChanceAbilityStudyPlansPositionHabitDisciplineExerciseSelf ImprovementOrganizationFellowsImprovementYoung ManRisingAddressesAssociationSelf DisciplineEarnestCompassAffording Author:B. C. Forbes
“When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.” ThinkingTodayPurposeAbilityOrganizationStructureCriticalEmployeeProductiveCapabilityMorphology Author:Dave Ulrich
“Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.” PeopleFactsMovingSocialAbilityInspireColdOrganizationSocial Organization Author:Ann Druyan
“A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.” ThinkingTurnsAbilityEnvironmentOrganizationMeetingsManagersAssets Author:Nancy Kline
“Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?” NeedsArtAbilityArt IsOrganizationDrawing Author:Edwin Catmull