Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requ...
As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 "Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intel...
We are; therefore, we evolve.
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
I'm kind of a neat freak. My place is really organized. My socks are even organized: colors and sizes.
When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized...
Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?
Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than spontaneous organizations, but, again, through the legal monopoly which it deems its prerogative, or through the overwhelming com...
