Key Competencies for Improving Local Governance: Concepts and strategiesUN-HABITAT, 2005 - 422 Seiten |
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Seite 24 - But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others ; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.
Seite 135 - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Seite 48 - If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Seite 207 - I use the term groupthink as a quick and easy way to refer to the mode of thinking that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive ingroup that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action.
Seite 56 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Seite 48 - I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
Seite 217 - The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Seite 183 - People know what they do: they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does (Foucault, quoted in Dreyfus and Rabinow 1982, p.
Seite 155 - Power" (Macht) is the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance, regardless of the basis on which this probability rests.
Seite 57 - No one organisation or institution is in a position to find and implement solutions to the problems that confront us as a society. No one is "in charge" when it comes to helping the crack babies, the homeless, the substance abusers, the sick, and the disenfranchised.