Organizing Quote by Harrison Owen

“...we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently…

— Rowan Jacobsen

“Systems are organic, living creations: if people stop working on them and improving them, they die.”

— Steven Levy

“My disappointments, instead of converging toward a center and constituting if not a system at least an ensemble, are scattered, each supposed itself unique…

— Emil Cioran

“Organizing looks different to everyone because we all have different needs and so is our life's outcomes.”

— Linda L Eubanks

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that…

— Nicholas Negroponte

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

— Noam Chomsky

“Society has already become a most artificial system of complicated relations, a gigantic organism, wherein all members are closely connected. All this demands help…

— Herman Bavinck

When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great…

— Laozi

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple…

— David Weinberger

“It’s the system that surrounds us, rather than any intrinsic quality, that accounts for the vast majority of our behavior.”

— Jeff Sutherland

“we also design our system of work so that we can multiply the effects of new knowledge, transforming local discoveries into global improvements. Regardless…

— Gene Kim

“DONNA: Why do traditional organizing solutions and tools not work for them?”

— Donna Smallin Kuper