“Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.” MayFightingLinesCuttingFrontsBandOrganizationCleanVariousAidsRadicalBleedingTalibanGermsBand Aid Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and -- by the way -- engage in discretionary effort. .. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers.” PeopleIfsWayMayFeelingsCausesEffortFiveMinutesBenefitsOrganizationProfitCustomersRelatedEmployeeFive MinutesPackagesRetention Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.” PeopleIfsShouldMayMeanPersonsSaidEndsBodyTogetherPurposeMy OwnCapitalismOrganizationDoctrinePlentyDiscussionPreferenceDisagreementAdvocacyHamComing TogetherCannibalCannibalism Author:Benton MacKaye
“In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.” FirstsMayTwoReasonUsePastMediaConcernOrganizationIndependencePressesJournalistOperationsDamageInherentCommitteesCredibilityCiaMisleadExaminingPast And PresentFree PressCovert Author:Frank Church