For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.
Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.
The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers.
The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.
An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.
You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.
If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.
In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged.
Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.
Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
