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The advent of Amber Organizations brought about two major breakthroughs: organizations can now plan for the medium and long term, and they can create organizational structures that are stable and can scale.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
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As a result of Austria’s defeat combined with Woodrow Wilson’s doctrine of national self-determination and democratic ideology, a plethora of states weak in structure and inadequate in resources now faced Germany in Eastern and Central Europe. Any future resurgence of German military capacity would have to be defeated by a French offensive into the
... See moreHenry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Modern global corporations are the embodiment of Orange Organizations.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
ces pratiques que des profits dérisoires. Les principaux actifs économiques consistent désormais en savoir technique et institutionnel plutôt qu’en champs de blé ou même de pétrole : or, le savoir ne se conquiert pas par la guerre.
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
Adolf Eichmann had been a Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the architects of the Holocaust, a central figure at the Wannsee Conference that decided on the Final Solution, and, at the time of his capture, the highest-ranking Nazi official still alive. He had spent most of his time after the war living under a pseudonym in
... See moreDaniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
It’s survival of the fittest, and the survivors are damn good.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
Si l’on peut assurer la paix et le développement de la Syrie, – et alors le mandat deviendra, même pour nos finances, profitable –, qu’on emploie les moyens nécessaires. La Syrie vaut la peine d’un grand effort. Le fait que déjà se montrent des prétendants à l’héritage du mandat français le prouve suffisamment. Mais, je le répète, mieux vaut
... See moreJoseph Kessel • En Syrie (French Edition)
A months-old knot inside Marie-Laure begins to loosen.