#organization

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players. ↗

— Michael Jordan

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The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #easy #everybody

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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