Organisation Quotes - Page 5

• It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Government, Order, Evil

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• Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

  John Elkann

  Able, Paradox, Situation

  "Unlikely heir who saved the family jewels". Financial Times, Marh 06, 2011.

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• There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time.

  Arthur Eddington

  Time, Knowledge, Science

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• Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Cancer, Behaviour

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• The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Effectiveness, Important

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• The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

  James Black

  Science, Drug, Technique

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• I think in any organisation it's right to set out what you stand for, what you're fighting for and bring that together in one document so that people can see that the modern compassionate Conservative Party is in it for everybody - not just the rich

  David Cameron

  Party, Fighting, Thinking

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• Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

  Ken Robinson

  Educational, Effectiveness, Essentials

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• Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

  Francis Fukuyama

  Degrees, Economics, Individual

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• The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.

  Steve Crocker

  People, Groups, Grew

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• You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  People, News, Stories

  "Jeremy Clarkson lifts 'pointless' injunction against ex-wife" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Phones, Way

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• Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Inspiring, Humility, Grace

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• At (UNHCR's) headquarters, I met extraordinary people, men and women, especially from the emergency team, who shared with me their passion, their dedication and their commitment to this organisation and refugees. They told me about the daily difficulties they have to face and also the joy they felt when they managed to save a person whose life was threatened.

  Julien Clerc

  Team, Passion, Commitment

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• States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

  John Bruton

  States, Retaliation

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• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Writing, Responsibility, Today

  "Resignation statement by Gavyn Davies", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Jesus, Blessed

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• I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.

  Laisenia Qarase

  Community, Groups, Needs

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• Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.

  Viktor Chernomyrdin

  Party, Trying, Communist

  "Obituary". The Economist, (p. 107), November 6, 2010.

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• I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

  S. R. Nathan

  Struggle, Government, Labour Movement

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• An Organisation That Does Not Invest In Itself, Has No Future.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Doe

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• I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument...

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, War, Giving

  "Hornsey Journal" Interview with Robert Eddison and Barry St John Nevill, www.margaretthatcher.org. April 21, 1978.

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• Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Motivation, Different

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• We don't stand here alone, it's possible through the great organisations that support us. The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed aren't only a threat to privacy but to democracy, when the most important decisions made affect all of us. Thank you to Edward Snowden. I share this with Glenn Greenwald and other journalists who are exposing truth.

  Laura Poitras

  Decision, Support, Democracy

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• If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

  James Connolly

  Army, Effort, Flags

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.124, Pluto Press

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