I FELL in love with the topic of LEADERSHIP. For THREE decades, that has been a MAJOR focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their TEAMS and their organizations.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too LITTLE COMMUNICATION between functions; they are too segregated.

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of COMMERCE, PERHAPS for PEACEFUL USES as in the Plowshare program, their cost WOULD be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

I think that by CREATING a world of plenty, by creating INSTITUTIONS and organizations that PROMOTE knowledge and promote understanding, I think I COULD be part of being in a better world.

I am lucky to have had an ATTENTIVE, CURIOUS and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted MOTHER. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have ALLOWED.

The identity of political DONORS should be disclosed and bureaucratic RULES should not circumvent the original intent of federal LAW or interfere with the public's ability to hold these organizations accountable.

The Qataris have cut off SUPPORT for the most EXTREME elements of TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.

I've experienced first-hand the wonderful WORK organizations like J Bar J do for young PEOPLE in Central Oregon and I am ENCOURAGED that the federal GOVERNMENT is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

All organizations START with a structure that looks like a DYNAMIC solar system. They can be very fast, agile. They ATTRACT PEOPLE who play around with crazy IDEAS.

I invested in the 'Globe' because it is one of the BEST and most important news organizations in the world. We saw this vividly in the days and WEEKS after the tragic Boston MARATHON bombings, and we also see it in many other ways EVERY DAY.

Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to EVERY TYPE of module because they understand that it COULD CAUSE safety problems.

Organizations want SMALL CHANGES in functionality on a more regular basis. An ORGANIZATION like Flickr deploys a new VERSION of its software every half HOUR. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

All Party ORGANIZATIONS should MAINTAIN implementing the Party's lines and policies as the MAJOR LINE of Party WORK, and carry every one of them to completion unconditionally.

The thing I'm most PROUD of in my career was to be ABLE to help two organizations GO someplace that they've never been before. Not MANY people get that OPPORTUNITY to do it with one.

Corporations are social ORGANIZATIONS, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize PURPOSEFUL and productive LIVES.