Showing posts with label Organizations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Organizations. Show all posts

Monday, October 10, 2011

A Leaderless movement

The Occupy Wall Street movement calls itself "leaderless," but a small cadre of dedicated activists has stepped up to manage the increasingly complex demonstrations as they move into their fourth week.

There's Thorin Caristo, a 37-year-old organic farmer and divorced father of two who is heavily involved in the group's distribution of video from Zuccotti Park. Jason Ahmadi, an unemployed 26-year-old from San Jose Calif., serves as both a medic and a media spokesman.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Politics according to Francis Fukuyama

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Just as institutions are hard to change, so too they are hard to develop. “Poor countries are poor not because they lack resources,” Dr. Fukuyama writes, “but because they lack effective political institutions.” The absence of a strong rule of law, in his view, is “one of the principal reasons why poor countries can’t achieve higher rates of growth.”

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Vocabulary

Organizations: "are human systems of cooperation and coordination assembled within identifiable boundaries to pursue shared objectives." Hodge, Anthony, Gales, Organization Theory, A strategic Approach, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 1996.