Organizations are fundamentally political entities; power and influence are key mechanisms by which things get done.
Organizations are fundamentally political entities, and power and influence are key mechanisms by which things get done.
But the Copa has accelerated things by providing a date by which things have to be ready," Luis Fernandes, executive secretary of the Ministry of Sport, said recently.
Power and influence processes are pervasive and important in organizations, and influence is a key mechanism by which things get done.
Have you been surprised by which things about your home or community turned out to be most important to your family's happiness?
The Tory leader expressed impatience with the civil service, but accepted that its meticulous routines represented the only route by which things could get done.
THERE'S another measure by which things appear worse today than in the recessionary period of 1990: how much lenders are recovering after a company emerges from bankruptcy.
Bassoonist Ursula Leveaux has commissioned a piece from Jennifer Walshe called Need Nothing Too Deep, inspired by a car journey across America, in particular the effect by which things close to the road whizz past while the distant landscape moves sluggishly.
Entertainment value is the standard by which things are measured, be it education, politics, or even religion, because it is the surest means for grabbing public attention in a world of stiff competition.
The administration of such enterprises is the ideal of "instrumental rationality," as Max Weber called it, by which things run impersonally and reasonably well for everyone — not a spiritually impassioned way of life, to be sure, and by no means sufficient to satisfy many of our desires, but one that allows, as an over-all framework, for the greatest individual development, the greatest freedom.
