Если Красные организации — это стаи волков, то для Янтарной стадии подходит другая метафора: в хорошей организации все заведено, как в армии. Внутри жесткой иерархии должна существовать очевидная субординация, формализованные внутренние процессы и четкие правила, кто что делает.

Сознательно или нет, лидеры выстраивают структуры, внутренние процессы и культуру так, чтобы это имело смысл для них, чтобы отвечало способу, которым они взаимодействуют с миром.

Если Конкурентная Оранжевая модель смотрит на организации как на машины, то основная метафора Плюралистической Зеленой модели — семья. Послушайте лидеров Зеленых организаций, и вы обязательно заметите, как часто это сравнение звучит в той или иной форме: сотрудники — одна семья

Двадцать лет мы играем в эту игру, гоняясь за успехом. А потом понимаем, что до вершины не добраться или что вершина — совсем не то, что нам нужно.

Янтарное «отдавать распоряжение и контролировать исполнение» превратилось в Оранжевое «предвидеть изменения и контролировать ситуацию»,

церковь, армия, школа -примеры Янтарных организаций. Живое воплощение Оранжевых — крупные международные корпорации. Выберите любой известный современный бренд, скажем, Walmart и вы, скорее всего, попадете на организацию, структура, внутренние процессы и культура которой вдохновлены Оранжевым

Современные представители Красных организаций — это уличные банды и мафия.

Тот, кто чувствует себя в Янтарной организации плохо и решает уйти, проходит через болезненный процесс отказа от старой нормы и освоения новой.

Если внутри организации существуют границы и барьеры, то от окружающего мира организацию отделяет настоящий крепостной ров.

Генеральскую форму невозможно спутать с лейтенантской или формой рядового даже издали.

Янтарных организациях изобретены, формализованы и распространены использование титулов, рангов и униформы для подкрепления идентификации

Эпоха интернета ускорила появление новой картины мира, в которой предусмотрено распределенное управление вместо нисходящей иерархии.

When I was a kid... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.

I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom.

I am an eternal optimist. I always say 'Yihyeh Tov' or 'It'll get better.'

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home people are trying to make sense of their lives.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

To be present with our fear to meet it with compassionate attention is to find this fearlessness.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.

The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them.

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.

A good career is a long lasting career. When youre there in every competition doing a good job youre a part of an elite and thats the most important thing.

Flirting all starts with eye contact! You can tell a girl is into you if she's across the room and still making eye contact with you.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

Who told you I was a musician?

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

I might love dancing more than I should admit. But not in public.

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.