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• I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

  Fred Reed

  Thinking, May, Nests

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• Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

  Scott Raab

  Consultants

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• News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.

  Walter W. Powell

  Media, Worry, Buenos Aires

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• We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

  Price Pritchett

  Life, Pain, Struggle

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• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Responsibility, Ethical Standards, People

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• Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas.

  Alan Robinson

  Successful, Ideas, Creating

  Alan G. Robinson (2009). “Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everyone has the ability to be creative. Everyone has the ability to connect one idea with another, to find an idea in another department, organization, or industry, and connect it with another to solve the challenge at hand.

  Elaine Dundon

  Hands, Ideas, Creative

  Elaine DUNDON (2002). “Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas”, p.17, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual Unitarism. Only slowly, and with many pangs is even Protestantism shaking off the religion about Christ.

  Lewis Browne

  Religious, Intellectual, Church

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• An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Able, Treats, Programming

  "The C++ Programming Language". Book by Bjarne Stroustrup, October 1985.

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• I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Information, Consistent

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• In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Heart, Reality, People

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• When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Real, Body, Members

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• Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

  Marc Singer

  Retirement, Successful, Decision

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• Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas.

  Teresa Amabile

  Creativity, Successful, Opportunity

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• In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.

  James A. Garfield

  Religious, Government, Presidential

  "Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States".

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• As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.

  James Davison Hunter

  Military, Victory, Warfare

  James Davison Hunter (1992). “Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America”, p.64, Basic Books

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• The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Struggle Between Good And Evil, Mafia, Triumph

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.167, Dial Press

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• Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

  Saul Alinsky

  Humanist, Rules For Radicals

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky, p. 113, archive.org. 1971.

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• Power is the flower of organization.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Flower, Humanist

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• As an organization, would we like to be in a better spot Everybody would like to know they're in the playoffs. But that's not a reality, year after year being in a playoff spot with 10, 12, 15 games left. We don't have that this year, so our playoffs have started.

  John Tortorella

  Reality, Years, Games

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• The minute they become a partner in the Palestinian government, reality will become a lot more complicated for them than when they were a terror organization alone.

  Avi Dichter

  Reality, Government, Complicated

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• It is a great honor to be inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. When you honor me with this distinction, you really honor the players who put me there. All of the honors I receive became a reality only through the contributions of my players. In addition to myself, you also honor my family and the Dodger organization. I accept this recognition with pride and gratitude.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Gratitude, Pride, Player

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• Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local organizations that ultimately deliver lots of service, your nonprofits, churches, humanitarian organizations. Those types of linkages get built up over time, in local communities.

  Peter May

  Army, Reality, Ties

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• I am very pleased with the progress of the new CBS Corporation. The Company's rapid pace of change and innovative approach to emerging business opportunities can be seen in the many strategic announcements we have made over these past few months. The more focused and more nimble organization we sought to create has become a reality and that aggressive spirit of excellence and innovation will continue to benefit shareholders for many years to come.

  Sumner Redstone

  Past, Opportunity, Reality

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• The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

  Robert I. Sutton

  Single, Mistake, Character

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