The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy. ' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.
I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.
We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion.
I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option. "
Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance, is what the Church is for. When the Church is that, and does that, it flourishes.
Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model. . . there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.
I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits
Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.
The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always been there. The sort of do-it-yourself, "create your own Jesus" kind of faith. But, the forms that faith takes do have a real reason they are so appealing.
the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.
Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose. . . he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings. . . he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.
White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it. . . Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.
If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.
I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.
Does management resist the institutional imperative?
As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.
Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.
The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
