“We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.” YearsNew YorkConversationNewsConceptsYears AgoOrganizationTwentiesMovedExpectedErasAccountabilityNew York TimesFanfare Author:Alex Jones
“The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.” YearsFirstsLawChurchModernHundredYears AgoOrganizationCatholicStructureWestEightCatholic ChurchCanon Author:Peter Drucker
“The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.” YearsYears AgoOrganizationEmployeeMinoritiesSeventies Author:Peter Drucker
“If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. So many members of the lesbian and gay community feel they have had violence done to them by religious groups that it is very difficult to evangelize any members of our community. But we do evangelize.” IfsWorldFeelsYearsDoneWould BeDifficultCommunityChurchReligiousViolenceGroupsGayMembersYears AgoOrganizationTouchingOur CommunityGay Community Author:Troy Perry
“Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"” WorldYearsWellsThreeAsksIndividualSocialReligiousSimpleBusinessConflictYears AgoOrganizationThirdsAffairManageBiosphereYear OneDisarray Author:Dee Hock
“Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.” GivingYearsTwoIdeasGivenSpaceExerciseDegreesHundredYears AgoOrganizationInfiniteSevenCome UpFocusedTwo YearsApartmentVariationParametersTwo Years Ago Author:Zaha Hadid
“If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.” PeopleIfsWayYearsHas BeensCountryStatesMightPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesNewsYears AgoOrganizationImpactDebateMainstreamSkepticalVigilantForeign CountriesPolitical Debates Author:Barack Obama