“The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties.” PeopleGovernmentAblePoliticalLyingCausesInterestMistakeLibertyOrganizationPenaltiesPeople Lie Author:Hugo Black
“My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.” Has BeensAbleBusinessWonderfulOrganizationRewards Book:Walt Disney: Conversations Source: Walt Disney: Conversations
“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
“Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.” NeedsPersonsEnoughHappensAbleStrongLeaderGroupsTeamMajorsOrganizationTerrificStrong EnoughSigningCharismaticMajor ChangeSigning Up Author:John P. Kotter
“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
“You've got to be very insightful about your brand, who you are, and what you mean to people. You've got to be able to inspire the whole organization behind that vision, so that every touch point the consumer experiences with the brand is reflective of that same brand promise.” PeopleMeanWholeAbleBehindsVisionInspirePromiseOrganizationWho You AreBrandsConsumersInsightful Author:Frances Allen
“An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.” ReasonHelpingAbleLiteratureDealsEnvironmentOrganizationOrganisms Author:Kevin Kelly
“ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies. And when they learned that from the [Edward] Snowden disclosures, they were able to adapt to it and essentially go silent.” AbleSchoolTechnologyOrganizationSilentTerroristIsisCollectingDisclosureSnowdenTelecommunications Author:Michael Morell
“We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.” AbleCommunityWhiteGroupsOrganizationMalesTerroristSuspiciousIntelligence CommunityTerrorist Groups Author:Jane Harman
“My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.” TwoImportantAbleSchoolPovertyLessonsLuckyDrawsOrganizationSalvationExcellentGrandmotherMy GrandmotherScholarshipImportant LessonsOxfam Author:Joy Bryant
“You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.” IfsWayShouldYearsDoneAbleLastsMotherFatherForceBlackCommunityJusticeLossCasesSonDrugCreatingDaughterConcernedOrganizationAbuseMurderPoliceBrownOffensePolice BrutalityBrutalityRepresentingMistrustAbuse Of PowerSon And DaughterPolice ForceBusting Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations.” ShowsAbleRecordsOrganizationGrantsCrewHiringEditsSampleAudioBroadcasters Author:Chris Hegedus
“I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down." It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on.” KnowsWantMayAblePoliticalCoursesHairWorshipOrganizationSeatsShopsSundayBlacknessAffirming Author:Michael Emerson
“So it's exciting for me to be able to be with him [my father, Donald trump] for major moments and stand by his side, and I'm very proud of him as a daughter and as somebody who's worked beside him for the past decade at The Trump Organization.” MomentsAblePastFatherSidesTrumpProudMajorsDaughterOrganizationExcitingDecadesProud Of Him Author:Ivanka Trump
“Part of being able to make great decisions around that and to really grow a business and scale a business, it also comes down to people. I spend a lot of time building teams at both businesses - both The Trump Organization and my own - and thinking about who to hire to supplement the team and allow us to best achieve our goals.” PeopleThinkingAbleGrowsGoalMy OwnDecisionTeamAchieveBuildingTrumpOrganizationScalesSupplementsBuilding A Team Author:Ivanka Trump
“An organization is great if you have a clear vision to be able to make it powerful. If you don't, an organization can kind of sap energy that could go elsewhere.” IfsKindAbleEnergyPowerfulVisionClearOrganizationElsewhereSapClear Vision Author:Ben Wikler
“Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.” PeopleYearsMindFirstsHardStoriesAbleJoyDifficultAnimalWatchesApproachMessagesOrganizationMiseryAverageDeeperDuesCoreVideoOpeningSellingEngagedRescueAgonyBackwardsInvolvementHappy EndingsHeartbreakingShortageHeartwarmingHard CoreAnimal RescueRescue Me Author:Elayne Boosler
“Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.” IfsHas BeensArtBodyAbleRiskTenComfortablePercentOrganizationProfitOperationsGrantsPensNinetyTranslationsSalaryFundingNicheSpecialists Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.” MayAbleIndividualOptimismOrganization Author:Daniel Kahneman
“I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.” WayAbleCommunityKnownLateOrganizationFortunateCommunity Service Author:Dolores Huerta
“Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.” AbleLeftInterestCommunityUnitedCommonPracticeMetsSkillsOrganizationBlessedWorkersFarmsGrassrootsCommunity ServiceCommon InterestsChavez Author:Dolores Huerta
“Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated. And people tend to be atomized - you get down to a society based on social units based on an atom - an atomic element - which is a person and their computer. Not a society that is going to be able to function freely and democratically. The tendency is there; it doesn't have to be, but its something to worry about.” PeopleThinkingPersonsAbleTogetherPoliticalSocialWorryPlansElementsComputerOrganizationFunctionUnionsTendenciesAtomsUnitsGet Together Author:Noam Chomsky
“We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantNeedsShouldStatesHelpingGovernmentMightAgeAbleActorsMiddleProtectWeaponsMassDestructionOrganizationAgreeAccessTerroristBerlinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionGreat Power Author:Barack Obama
“We lack an organization that will support fashion week. The five-day week shows a lack of vision and that we are not able to command respect. I am not saying it's anyone's fault in particular, it's our fault. We have the highest concentration of brands, how can we accommodate everyone in four or five days?” ShowsAbleVisionSupportFiveFourWeekFashionParticularHighestOrganizationFaultsCommandBrandsConcentrationAccommodateFashion Week Author:Franca Sozzani
“[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.” PeopleThinkingWellsAbleProcessVisionBuildingTrumpTestsOrganizationBuilding Up Author:Barack Obama
“Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.” RunningAbleTogetherAsksAbilityCompanyMissingEventsOughtOrganizationDataEnterpriseUnexpectedCeoConnectingUnexpected Events Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.” AbleLeadershipLeaderOrganizationWake UpLeadership DevelopmentBeing A LeaderSoullessWake Up CallFuture LeadersLeadership And Change Author:Warren G. Bennis
“Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.” IfsNeedsAbleGrowthAbilityBusinessOrganizationMarketingEducationalCustomersFirmPace Author:Arthur Levitt Jr
“Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.” WarCountryAbleHateSocialPeaceProduceRevolutionPeriodsOrganizationCastsRuinsDisorderAnti WarAntiwarBloodyProvokingSocial Organization Author:Georges Sorel
“I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.” IfsThinkingYearsKindStatesDoneAbleActionPastUsedOrderWillingMarriedOrganizationPreparedIraqTerroristCapabilityBe PreparedSaddamHusseinRoguesBold Actions Author:Dick Cheney
“Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.” IfsShouldDifferentMightWould BeTodayAbleTogetherIndividualInterestOughtCallingOrganizationWorkersCraftsEmployeeScoreCollectivesMutualDividesOfficersEmployedProposeRailroadsTogether As One Author:Eugene V. Debs
“In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive... Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.” MenWorldAbleLyingCoursesMoneyPowerfulCitiesEconomyDemocracyOrganizationInstitutionsDollarsInternationalBillionsOfficialsVisibleMost PowerfulPensStrokesObscureNew World OrderSettlementSwissCentral BanksSecretive Author:Keith Bradsher
“An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.” AbleWillingOrganizationTreatsProgrammingSoftwareProgrammersMoronSoftware EngineeringSoftware Design Author:Bjarne Stroustrup