“Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.” KnowsWritingStillsRealJobsLastsReligiousOrganizationTherapyGod Knows Author:Jenny Lawson
“How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we’ve said all along, is just to coach ’em up.” SaidJobsPlayerOrganizationCoachesEms Author:Randy Carlyle
“The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.” RealityJobsPresidentCommunityHoursAchievementOrganizationFundamentalsMajorityWorkersVicesEightAccessFulfillmentOur SocietyExecutivesVice PresidentSweepers Author:Peter Drucker
“An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.” PeopleHumansImportantJobsMistakeRiskBuildingMembersAchievementWeaknessConcernedPerformancesOrganizationSickRelationListsAccomplishmentAvoidingPromotionHuman RelationsTaking Risks Author:Peter Drucker
“That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.” PeopleWellsGovernmentJobsInterestingOrganizationPaidUniversityRetirementSevereIndictmentGovernment Service Author:Peter Drucker
“I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.” IfsWorldTryingJobsMovingFightingPresidentCommunityLeaderSawsConditionsApproachOrganizationInstitutionsTradeCooperationAsianSummitIntegratedPacificCoalitionsUnstableNatoInterdependenceCooperativesWorld TradeBosniaKosovoWorld Trade Organization Author:William J. Clinton
“I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared.” PeopleThinkingDoneJobsLyingResultsFrontsBrotherOrganizationWingsMarketingScaredSellingAdministrationExplainingRight WingObamacare Author:Robert Reich
“The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.” WorldAbleJobsCasesHavensOrganizationTradeClintonAdministrationTwelveWorld TradeWorld Trade Organization Author:Jennifer Granholm
“It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.” FirstsWholeJobsLossEffortStepsTeamDirectOrganizationAimIndependentManagementProfitSelfishDamageFirst StepsComponentsClarification Author:W. Edwards Deming
“I really admire the job that not just coach Belichick has done but that Robert Kraft and his family have done, and the decisions that they made to let Bill do what he's capable of doing. I think it's a great illustration of a way to structure an NFL organization when you let the coach really run the thing.” ThinkingWayMadeDoneRunningJobsDecisionCapableOrganizationBillsStructureCoachesAdmireNflSuper BowlIllustration Author:Pete Carroll
“Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.” PeopleIfsGivingWellsPersonsJobsWorkFailingPositionOrdinaryAdvantagePerformancesOrganizationCreditExpectedEstablishmentInherentCompetenceCompetent Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.” IfsShouldTogetherJobsForceSocialCompanySupportModelsConcernFemaleTasksOrganizationFunctionPsychologicalRelatedDeficiencySociabilityTask ForcesPositive Image Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter