Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.
Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.
In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
You can't really force four tournaments a year.
I can see the immense capacity of business to give leadership.
Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.
No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.
I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.
What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.
We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can lead the communities we live in.
It takes more than a trained army … it takes an institutionalized army.
In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
