“Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.” WorldGovernmentAgeTodayCultureSocialResponsibilityCitizensMoralityGreedShouldersCorporationsEmployeeCollectivesShedPersonal ResponsibilityIrresponsibilityGildedGilded AgeCollective Responsibility Book:Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States Source: Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States
“I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.” PeopleWorldDifferentMatterSchoolPastCultureGoneGroupsHabitPrisonCorporationsParadigm Author:Bob Proctor
“For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.” WantArtImportantSometimesCultureHousePresidentCommunityExistenceCompanySupportDramaActivityOfficeArt IsPlantArchitectureStatementsCorporationsVisibleReportsExecutivesInteriorsGoodwillUndertakingsAnnualsGood BusinessBedfellowsAnnual Reports Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.” PeopleImportantEndsValuesCultureGamesBusinessVisionElementsCapacityAspectOrganizationStrategyEntrepreneurMarketingCorporationsMy TimeJust OneCollectivesMakeupCeoIbm Author:Lou Gerstner