Sometimes it is about guts
The word organize is closely related to the word organ. Important meanings for organ include tool, instrument, and implement. Organ can speak of guts as well as it can of a musical instrument. Could that imply that guts are available for the formation of a melodious and harmonious organization!
The word organ has referred to an implement for doing work. An organization can be a tool for getting things done. To organize can be the process of making a tool to get things done and even to the process of maintaining an organization. So, to organize can be the can be the process of making and maintaining a tool to get things done.
To organize can be thought of as a derivative of organ and once meant literally to furnish with organs including to do so to form a living being. So, your organization can be alive and active. And so, your organizing activity could provide your group with a coordinated, coherent structure; might it even be done so as to include guts and music?
To organize is to cause to develop an organic structure. You may look at your organization and see that it is alive and well! I feel enthusiasm for the doing right now.
To organize can be to arrange or form into a coherent unit or functioning whole. In governance that unit or whole may consist of lively persons. We can organize to get things done.
We seem to have a handle on the nature of "to organize," but there is much more about organizing which is worth knowing.
We know that organize means to establish organization or an organization. We may consider that there are organizations because there is organizing going on. These days there is a growing interest in the development and maintenance of political, social, and civic organization. This growing interest is developing in many persons new to it. They know that an organization consists of activities and doings by actors and doers. They are developing some ideas as to why it is done and a few ideas as to how it is done.
Organization for cooperation may be one of mankind's earliest activities. It is mostly learned by ongoing observation and practice. It benefits greatly from ongoing dialogue. When a number of us are doing something together, Talk of what we are doing; why we are doing it, and how we agree to do it, is important to our success, The quality of that talk is certainly important.
Actors and doers learn and keep abreast of group and individual called for by their dialogue, their observation, and their talk. They learn varied functions which contribute the whole and collective functions. Much is done together. In a democratic organization even more is done together. Persons unite and accept specific responsibilities for an understood purpose. Persons unite for a particular purpose and take on certain responsibilities.
An organization is often a more systematize co-operation rather than a less systematized activity, One can observe that organization can be a powerfully effective social tool. We may organize a mechanism for taking care of business and discover that such organization is vital to that business.
An organizer is one who organizes. In a democratic organization the more complete the participation in organization, the more lasting and powerfully effective that organization often is. The organizers put the guts into the organization. An organizer acts to put life and action into her organization. An organizer activates the process of making your organization a tool for getting things done. When you do not participate in that process you make your organization less democratic and less effective. Your organizing acts to cause your organization to develop a better organic, living structure for doing well.
An organizer sees his job establishing and maintaining his organization as he and his fellow members have decided.
For an organization to endure organizing must go on. You may find it useful to use your own initiative from time to time. However, if the organization is to be truly for us it must be truly by us.
Organization is much about co-operation, so, to organize is much about helping the members of the group to practice co-operating. We can find or make opportunity to talk about this kind of cooperation. We can learn to improve the way we talk together.
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