"Jerry said, 'You have to be able to have a general manager who you can have arguments with about organizational things,' " Jackson said.
Yet another concern faced by the policy-makers was how to bring about organizational changes such as decentralization.
He favors fiction, including mysteries, and books about organizational culture.
After writing a paper about organizational change, a professor encouraged him to write about Wall Street.
"But ultimately, we decided that when you're selecting a financial institution, it's more about organizational capability and intelligence than optimism".
Military officials have asked Mr. bin al-Shibh about organizational changes in Al Qaeda since the Sept. 11 attacks and about plans for further attacks.
They investigate methods of bringing about organizational change (e.g., in the direction of improving the social skills of people and introducing industrial democracy).
"I went around the country for literally a month of my life interviewing these companies and just talking about organizational growth, emerging technologies, marketing," he says at Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago.
"The defense view is that this provision is about organizational structure and not psychological relations," said Richard J. Bonnie, a law professor and death penalty expert at the University of Virginia.
Much of the early thinking about organizational design can be traced to the influence of Frederick W. Taylor's scientific management movement and the division-of-labour concepts found in Max Weber's description of the ideal bureaucracy.
Correction: January 26 , 2000 Wednesday The Beliefs column on Saturday, about organizational and spiritual reasons for the success of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement, misspelled the word used by its members for the envoys they assign to serve and raise their families in a community in need.
