Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.
In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.
Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.
It's just this long overdue. These people [ex-Nazi brought to trial] should be grateful to the apathy that exists there that prevented them from being brought to trial earlier. All of the people that they committed crimes against had their lives snuffed out, some of them at very young ages. Some of them never had a chance to get married and have children.
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us.
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'. . . It's just simple, showing up for each other.
I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.