#organization

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#centuries #century #changes #conception #education

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#business #career #climate #contrast #create

For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#organization #business

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#organization #productivity #time-investment #time-management #work-life-balance

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#organization #communication

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#organization #society #communication

Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time. ↗

— Travis Polso

#communication #community #economy #extend #fun

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#internet #media #organization #profession #communication

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests, first of all, perhaps, upon the private agencies of philanthropy, secondly, other social organizations, and last, but not least, the Church. Yet all agree that to leave to the locality the entire responsibility would result in placing the heaviest burden in most cases upon those who are the least able to bear it. In other words, the communities that have the most difficult problem, like Detroit, would be the communities that would have to bear the heaviest of the burdens. And so the State should step in to equalize the burden by providing for a large portion of the care of the victims of poverty and by providing assistance and guidance for local communities. Above and beyond that duty of the States the national Government has a responsibility. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#communities #depression #distress #government #philanthropy

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional. ↗

— Justin Amash

#arguably #engage #improper #legislation #names