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

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.

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

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.

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

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.

No, there will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis - I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.

Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.

You don't love a woman because she's beautiful; she is beautiful because you love her.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

The moral sense in mortals is the duty we have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.

It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.

I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.

The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel.

I enjoy his concerts and OK, maybe - I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't play the guitar, but I am going to go a long way if I keep following Springsteen.

How can you fully open your heart to someone new when in fact what you really need is a closure from your past.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.