“I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC (The Nature Conservancy) can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.” PeopleThinkingImportantHelpingGrowthCommunityNaturalDesignResourcesCapacityOrganizationInvestmentCriticalNeighborLocalsEntityNatural ResourcesEcosystemsBetter FutureSmall CommunitiesFuture Relationship Author:Edward Norton
“Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.” PeopleFactsNaturalDecisionCommonLeaderStruggleDevelopmentTasksOrganizationUnityPursuitWitnessLiberationOrganizeLinkedManipulateLiberatedImposing Author:Paulo Freire
“In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.” MatterEasyNaturalCompanyLeaderRecordsOrganizationContrastFormalHierarchy Author:Gary Hamel
“In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.” EnergyNaturalEconomyCreativeIntellectualCapacityOrganizationFavorsCollectivesSelectionNatural SelectionHarnessCoordinates Author:Justin Rosenstein