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You are attached to what you attack.
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Attached
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Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.
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Absolute Power
Absolute
Anyone
Seeks
Wants
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Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
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Design
Humans
Perfect
Ultimately
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The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
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Driven
Orthodox
Christians
Hierarchical
Rapidly
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Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
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Aspect
Combination
Human Beings
Useful
Beings
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A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.
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Class
Conflict
Division
Inequality
Labor
Permanent
Creates
Inevitably
Occupational
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Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.
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Military
Organization
Paradigm
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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
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Organization
Surprise
Instead
Though
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
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Destroyed
Heroines
Tragedy
Heroes
Greatest
Appears
Element
Greatest Strength
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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
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Major
Reject
Rule
Violate
Worse
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Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
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Most Powerful
Organization
Performing
Powerful
Constructed
Functions
Interdependent
Inventions
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But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
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Ideals
Organization
Principles
Original
Diverted
Likely
Prospers
Purposes
Succeeds
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Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
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Adaptable
Brighter
Energetic
Skills
Variety
Know More Who
Cultivate
Individuals
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Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.
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Fulfilling
Organization
Advance
Attracts
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Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
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Millions
Packs
Years Ago
Ancestors
Eaten
Ended
Hunt
Indeed
Millions Of Years
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The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.
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Bypass
Chess
Operations
Organization
Paint
Pockets
Ahead
Pick
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One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
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Jobs
Leadership
Becoming
Including
Simple
Basis
Frequent
Mandatory
Positions
Rotate
Simple Way
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It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
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Department
Extraordinary
Incompetent
Leaving
Particular
Degree
Possesses
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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
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Garden
Organized Religion
Village
Organizations
Model
Member
Price
Provides
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As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.
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Achieve
Conflict
Influence
Organization
People Will Win
Interests
Whenever
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It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
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Computer
Decline
Fun
Idealism
Industry
Instance
Prosperous
Romance
Sheer
Vision
Becomes
More And More
Trace
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Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.
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Dear
Force
Helping
Meetings
Tasks
Assigned
Attend
Perform
Busily
Contribute
Create
Hold
Suspect
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Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
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Jesus
Influential
Lines
Military
Founder
Indeed
Modeled
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This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
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Diversion
Ideals
Phenomenon
Rise
Bridge
Magazine
Offices
Publisher
Purposes
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Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
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Design
Behave
Certain
Competition
Predatory
Succeed
Animals
General
Follow
Prevail
Similar
Ways
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That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.
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Objectives
Unnoticed
Authoritarian
Generally
Lend
Prevail
Similar
Structures
Survive
Varied
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