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• The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
• Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
• Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create…
• To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one…
• The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
• You are attached to what you attack.
• But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
• Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one…
• Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.
• Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines…
• That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many…
• But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and…

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