“Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.” PeoplePresidentChurchDecisionSupportWonderfulGroupsTypeInvolvedDirectorsMembersOrganizationGratefulLocalsBoardsDecision MakingAssociationBalancedMinistrySupportiveMembershipCounselorBoard Of DirectorsExodus Author:Alan Chambers
“Ebola has killed almost 12,000 people and at least 500 health workers. So it affected the entire population. And as you know, the World Health Organization was accused of not having declared an epidemic soon enough. And that's when we saw Ebola rampaging through Sierra Leone, Liberia and, to a lesser extent, Guinea.” PeopleKnowsWorldEnoughSawsOrganizationWorkersPopulationAffectedAccusedEpidemicsGuineaSierraEbolaSoon EnoughWorld HealthSierra LeoneWorld Health OrganizationHealth Workers Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
“With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that trust in leaders is low and nonetheless, organizations role along quite nicely.” PeopleLeaderRolesEssentialsLowsOrganizationSurveysOrganizational Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed meals, they needed transport, they needed medication, they needed buddy systems. They had a death sentence. There was AZT, and that was just prolonging the agony, basically. Now people, of course, if they are on antiretrovirals, they face a lifetime of health, basically. I mean, it doesn't - it's I would say in the 99 percent certainty bracket that if you are on that medication, you will have a healthy life.” PeopleIfsMeanCareFacesCoursesNeededHealthyPercentDirectOrganizationLifetimeSentencesCertaintyMealsAgonyBuddyTransportMedicationDeliveringHealthy LifeAtlantaDeath SentenceBracketsProlonging Author:Elton John
“The corporate system is fully psychopathic, and any creative people who enter into business with any of these organizations come up against a lifetime of issues. You just deal with it as you go along. It'll keep on happening until people reorganize the organizations.” PeopleDealsCreativeIssuesHappeningsOrganizationLifetimeCome UpCorporateCreative PeoplePsychopathic Author:Kevin Shields
“The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people said if you do that you'll hit glass ceilings all the time, because you are not Ghanian or Nigerian and that's the way to progress though a multinational organization like that. In any event, they said do five years' legal experience and come back. And after five years I decided to stay where I was. So I am really an accidental lawyer.” PeopleIfsWayYearsSaidWantedNationsUnitedFiveProgressEventsDecidedOrganizationGlassesLawyerFive YearsThey SaidRefugeeUnited NationsCeilingsMultinationalsGlass Ceiling Author:John Gimlette
“When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.” PeopleWantMatterNumbersOrganizationCustomersRight ThingIncentivesDoing The Right ThingLarge Numbers Author:Ramez Naam
“If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.” PeopleIfsReasonBehaviorOrganizationRewardsCustomersIncentives Author:Ramez Naam
“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
“We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to be feeding that sense of our original being. We fight ourselves, repeating other people's games and being fed their appetites and their amusements.” PeopleSeemsValuesFightingGamesSocialOrganizationOriginalsPatternsFedsConformityAppetiteTrappedConsumptionFeedingAmusementValue SystemsSocial Organization Author:James O'Dea
“The Afghan - obviously the parties will decide which course of action. The most important there, get a government that is seen as legitimate to the people and has the credibility to be a partner in the effort to secure Afghanistan so it's not a haven for al Qaeda or other type of terrorists or international terrorist organizations.” PeopleImportantGovernmentActionCoursesPartyEffortHavensTypeOrganizationInternationalPartnersTerroristSecureAlsAfghanistanCredibilityAl QaedaAfghan Author:Rahm Emanuel
“We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of an ancient heritage of collective innovation. We work from the grassroots all the way to the national government and the World Trade Organization. It basically means being very multidimensional in our campaigns. And that is where part of the fun is. It involves both resistance and creativity. It involves constructive action, while at the same time saying "no."” PeopleWorldWayMeanGovernmentActionFacesFunCreativityRightsMovementOrganizationBasesInnovationTradeDemocraticAncientCampaignsResistanceCollectivesHeritageConstructiveSaying NoWorld TradeGrassrootsRetaliationDemocratic RightsWorld Trade Organization Author:Vandana Shiva
“The vast majority of people in any organization, even quite high up, have got no idea who the real masters are.” PeopleIdeasRealMastersOrganizationMajorityNo Idea Author:David Icke
“I know people who have donated big to presidents. I know people who have raised money big for presidents. And they are treated like kings by the politician and his organization. They are constantly invited to parties, seminars, private gatherings where the candidate or the president will explain policy, but only to them. And they brag about it. Which is fine. That doesn't bother me.” PeopleKnowsBigsPresidentPartyPolicyFineKingsPoliticianOrganizationRaisedTreatedBotherCandidatesInvitedGatheringBragSeminars Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The United States is pushing as policy division of the world into rival currency camps - the dollar area on the one hand, and the Russia-Chinese-Shanghai Cooperation Organization group on the other, especially now that the IMF has changed its rules. People think that if there are rival currency groupings and national currencies are going bust, we might as well use gold as a safe haven.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWellsStatesUseHandsMightUnitedUnited StatesGroupsHavensPolicyChangedSafeAreasGoldOrganizationDollarsRussiaChinesePushingDivisionCampsCooperationCurrencyRivalsSafe HavenShanghaiImf Author:Michael Hudson
“AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.” PeopleMovementEssenceOrganizationAimManifestationDesperation Author:Leonard Peltier
“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
“Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore the zeal of many to serve humanity and to gain God's good pleasure in doing so. They ignore people's generosity. Such misunderstandings may lead others to have suspicions about the financial resources of the schools.” PeopleThinkingMaySchoolHumanityPleasureGainsResourcesOrganizationResponsibleInstitutionsFinancialGenerositySuspicionMisunderstandingZealFinancial ResourcesIgnoring People Author:Fethullah Gulen
“My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.” PeopleJoyPurposeVisionInspireHighestConcernedOrganizationHarmonyEmpoweringPurpose Of Life Author:Jack Canfield
“We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win something, I'm the only one of my ethnicity to get it, but this time I met all these Latinos, and I was so excited. I'd meet someone and I'd go, [...] "Can you come to San Antonio?" And they'd go, "Oh yeah." [...] And suddenly I had twelve people that said they would come. And I didn't know how it was going to be. And that's how the Macarturos became a reality, where these very generous geniuses come to San Antonio and work together.” PeopleKnowsSaidRealityTogetherWinningKnow HowGeniusMetsOrganizationYeahFoundationExcitedGenerousWorking TogetherTwelveLatinoEthnicityAntonioSan AntonioMacarthur Author:Sandra Cisneros
“There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly.” PeopleWorldNeedsGovernmentFacesIssuesFailingAspectOrganizationChanging The WorldTacklingNonprofits Author:Annie Lennox
“I was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we've made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we'll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.” PeopleMadeCountryFeltDecisionTeamFootballPeriodsOrganizationDiligentFootball Team Author:Bill Belichick
“I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has given me the opportunity to insist that strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.” PeopleWorldNeedsHas BeensCareOpportunityGivenEffortQualityPolicyDevelopmentApproachResearchCapacityProgramOrganizationStrategyAvailableRangeAddressesTechnologicalIntroductionGood QualityContraceptivesWorld HealthWorld Health Organization Author:Ruth Simmons
“There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.” PeopleHeroOrganizationGrassrootsUnsung Hero Author:Bonnie Raitt
“People at all levels and in all roles in organizations are wrestling with the challenges of modern life, trying to find ways to create harmony among the different parts of their lives while aiming to achieve their goals and live with purpose.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentPurposeGoalChallengesLevelsRolesModernAchieveOrganizationHarmonyWrestlingModern LifeLive With Purpose Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“The early days of the end of the Clintonian control of the Democratic Party will be times when there are many opportunities for people and organizations to jump into the openings in the power hierarchy that is forming.” PeopleEndsOpportunityPartyOrganizationDemocraticOpeningHierarchyDemocratic Party Author:Rob Kall
“Bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise.” PeopleWayWellsRunningGivenInterestHurtCompanyGroupsSpecialOrganizationImmoralArbitraryExpertiseSpecial InterestsInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:T. J. Rodgers
“Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.” PeopleIfsBelieveLooksMeanCareLeadershipLossEventsOrganizationDefinitionsTrue YouDecentralization Author:Wilbur L. Creech
“Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.” PeopleFeelsGrowsResponsibilityOrganizationInnovationMembershipSense Of Responsibility Author:Abraham Zaleznik
“If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in the Latino community, they have this big ballot and all these names and propositions on it, and they say 'Oh my God'. They don't know which of these to vote for, so they don't vote.” PeopleIfsKnowsBigsAsksNamesCommunityLaborVoteOrganizationUnionsGuidesPropositionsLatinoBallotsLabor Union Author:Dolores Huerta
“As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people - create internships, for example, even if it's only half-time.” PeopleIfsWayYoungOpportunityHalfExampleOrganizationCorporationsHalf TimeInternships Author:Dolores Huerta
“A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities; take any of the popular movements, a lot of the organization is through the internet. We want to have a demonstration or we want to have a meeting, its done through the internet. I think that's all to the good.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasDonePlansMovementInternetActivityOrganizationMeetingsAssociationConstructiveDemonstrationInteractingCoordinating Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“In a large pharmaceutical company, where it's a big bet, you're going to need finance people to be involved in the decision-making because the investment can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. You're going to have to run scenarios. You might even need agreement from the C.E.O. to make that type of decision. If it's an incremental, low-cost decision in a marketing-oriented company, it may be a very different set of stakeholders a lot further down in the organization.” PeopleIfsNeedsMayDifferentBigsMightRunningDecisionCompanyMillionsTypeInvolvedCostLowsOrganizationDollarsInvestmentMarketingFinanceAgreementDecision MakingScenariosPharmaceuticalStakeholderPharmaceutical Companies Author:John Kao
“I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death. These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves - there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.” PeopleWayChildrenSaidSexReligiousOrganizationClaimsSlaveIslamExcuseTerroristJustifyAlsAl QaedaBarbarismRationaleIsil Author:Barack Obama
“They're mounting a campaign right now with the ACLU and a lot of different organizations advocating for [Edward Snoden] pardoning before [Barack] Obama leaves office. Wouldn't it be incredible to see something like that happen? I don't know what we can expect. I am interested in the different points and perspectives that people have.” PeopleKnowsDifferentHappensPerspectiveRight NowOfficeOrganizationIncrediblesCampaignsBarackAdvocating Author:Zachary Quinto
“Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much, or at times, they're quite frank, they didn't care much about Afghanistan. But they pay attention more after reading these novels, and at times it has triggered this humaitarian spirt: some have donated money or at time times, people have joined humatiarian organizations that work in Afghanistan.” PeopleKnowsCareReadingPayAttentionNovelLettersOrganizationResponsePay AttentionAfghanistanMailFrank Author:Khaled Hosseini
“People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.” PeopleViewsExerciseJudgmentNewsOrganizationIndependentPoint Of View Author:David Folkenflik
“There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.” PeopleWorldNeedsTodayBeautifulCommunityHurtOrganizationYesterdayBeautiful ThingsAmazing Beautiful Author:Peter Buffett
“The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later call several years later Black Powerites, Black nationalists, progressives coming out of the Black freedom struggle, the northern students' movement, people - students, young people, professionals, workers, who were dedicated to Black activism and militancy, but outside of the context of Islam.” PeopleYearsYoungBlackStruggleGroupsMovementStudentsOrganizationUnityIslamWorkersActivismComing OutDedicatedSecularAfrosMilitancy Author:Manning Marable
“Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.” PeopleMenTryingLooksWhiteModernFoolOrganizationLook UpStayingDoomedHonorableWhite ManMagicianMosesMuhammadIntegratingModern DayElijahPharaohsElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Malcolm X
“Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends, and only secondarily, if at all, from the larger organizations.” PeopleIfsKnowsHealingSupportCoupleOrganizationPrimariesEnlightenedHelpfulMinistry Author:Richard Rohr
“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
“The good news is I think there are a lot of young people certainly who were involved in my campaigns, and I think continue to be involved in work not just politically, but through nonprofits and other organizations, that can carry this hard work of democracy forward.” PeopleThinkingHardYoungDemocracyHard WorkInvolvedNewsOrganizationCampaignsGood NewsNonprofits Author:Barack Obama
“Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.” PeopleThreeHouseLeftNumbersSecurityCollegeTerribleActivityDecidedOrganizationReportsDestructiveInternalsCommitteesTerrible ThingsCongressmanArson Author:Nat Hentoff
“I treasure the fact there's media freedom, but with that goes responsibility. I think that there should be a self-regulatory organization and that they should start to think about standards. Because I think a lot of people say, "I don't know how to read what is true versus somebody else's interpretation."” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldSelfFactsResponsibilityKnow HowMediaStandardsOrganizationTreasureInterpretationVersus Author:Ray Dalio
“East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?” PeopleEvilCompanyOrganizationIndiaProfitEastDrivenFamiliar Author:Steven Knight
“I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGovernmentWould BeKidsTogetherFunDevelopmentLuckySmartOrganizationScientistPartnersThings To DoFascinatingPartnershipSmart PeopleSo LuckyVery SmartFun ThingsUsaid Author:Bill Gates
“One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court.” PeopleStatesSecretCasesOrganizationCourtPrivilegeAdministrationLegacyAssertionSaddestDetention Author:Edward Snowden
“People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions made by the executive. Even though it seems so obvious now, it is extraordinary in the context of the last decade, because courts had simply said they were not the best branch to adjudicate these claims - which is completely wrong, because they are the only nonpolitical branch. They are the branch that is specifically charged with deciding issues that cannot be impartially decided by politicians.” PeopleMadeSaidSeemsLastsLibertyIssuesClearSeaJudgingPoliticianDecidedOrganizationClaimsCourtExtraordinaryObviousDecadesBranchesExecutivesAssertionCivil LibertiesSea ChangeSimply Said Author:Edward Snowden