2007 GO World Conference Opening Video Clip

Speaker A In many countries many attempts have been made to find alternative forms of organization. By and large, they haven't succeeded. Our effort must therefore be directed towards making hierarchies better able to serve social and psychological as well as economic needs.

Speaker B I guess the most compelling aspect of the book that everybody in an enterprise has a productive role and that you can, through looking at an organization, really free people up to live out that productivity in terms of the good of the overall organization and indeed, in terms their own satisfaction that they feel that they're aligned with the objectives of the organization and that they can contribute and participate in the success of that organization.

Speaker C The greatest value I've derived from requisite organization is that I believe it's one of the most saint making approaches to individual and organizational development.

Speaker D And I say the proposition is let's leave individual personality alone as a matter with individual and let's focus on the development of the institutions. And I don't just mean structure, I mean organizational structure. And an acronym Rosp.

Speaker A To get through.

Speaker D To requisite organizational Structure, processes and practices.

Speaker E With Elliot Jack's model I saw the potential to have the most powerful public health model.

Speaker F But the most important thing that Denning could ever say to anybody is.

Speaker E And.

Speaker F That'S in the letter he had read all of represent organization and he said this is a system.

Speaker E By applying these principles, applications and practices I believe in the last 1516 years I've been able to have a substantial impact on the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people which I never would have been able to have as a practicing psychiatrist or even someone who was a medical director of a mental health center.

Speaker D We really need to move away from what I am now inclined to call pigeon theory of human behavior to a conception of human behavior that assumes that individuals really get the greatest satisfaction out of the opportunity to express their capabilities to the full to use their creativity and enthusiasm and to get along well with other people.

Speaker C And there's something very sane making about knowing what your stratum capability is about knowing the type of organization, the type of structure you need to be fully deployed in your role and to push the biggest rock that you can. It is a tremendously freeing system.

Speaker G People are infinitely adaptable. We're wonderful. People are terrific is what I want to tell you. They're extraordinary. Their flexibility, adaptability and so on is outstanding.

Speaker H His work to the day died was stunning to me and was the most intriguing, demanding, stimulating that I ever saw.

Speaker I If we were to look at the investment in human capital over this period of time from now it's 30 years since Neil Cosby made the first investment with Elliot. We've had all of these great classics of managerial revolution that we've looked at. But when it comes right down to it when you look at Elliot's functions in terms of let's look at work. Let's look at the output of an organization. Let's look at how do you design an organization from the ground up? How does work get done inside that organization? You're looking at something withstood the test of time.

Speaker G I become very impressed by the possibilities of getting to the best of human beings. He's stuck there. That's definitely terrific.