Algae Quote by Ricardo Semler Download Open image “Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.” — Ricardo Semler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Algae Alienation Organization Ponds Stagnant
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… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“If we are not graced with an instinctive knowledge of how to make our technologized world a safe and balanced ecosystem, we must figure… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“With this increased diversity at the base of the food chain, there are increased opportunities for insects and fungi and bacteria that did not… — Chris D. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Dinsdale and Rohwer found that as humans become more common, so do microbes. From Kingman to Christmas Island, top predators such as sharks went… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world. — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive. — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives,… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors. — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism,… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to "sloth moths" who… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells are unaffected).… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
“In this city of concave algae ponds, my mother begins to plant bonsais, nettle and leaf: silk against the skin.” — Sneha Subramanian Kanta Copy Share Image
...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
We're making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that's actually made from a plant-like substance-algae...we could replace up… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image