Corporate Culture
Definition: The ethos of a particular company, or that of large
businesses in general; the approach a company takes towards the working environment of its staff.
Number of Quotes: 25
If you limit a company by its structure or by the people in the company, you will, by definition, limit the full potential of
that business. It sounds basic, but a lot of companies don't follow the idea that the structure should be last and not first.
Michael Dell
The decision to do that extra bit must be embedded in the company's culture.
Tom Farmer
I realised that if you want to change something, nine times out of ten you can change it more effectively from within.
Niall FitzGerald
A company needs smart young men with the imagination and the guts to turn everything upside down if they can.
It also needs old figures to keep them from turning upside down those things that ought to be rightside up.
Henry Ford II
Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft would become an unimportant company.
Bill Gates
The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Bill Gates
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the
charts; the other is the everyday relationships of the men and women in the organization.
Harold Geneen
Others appear frozen in the headlights - aware of the likely impact, yet paralysed by the fear of major transformations.
Patricia Hewitt
We have a very simple, clear organization. It's very easy to know who has authority for what, who has
responsibility for what. There's no politics about it, they're virtually politics-free organizations.
Steve Jobs
Companies that stay ahead of change are ones in which their people see change as something they themselves
accomplish and not something that is imposed on them. They see lots of opportunities to take initiative.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Quality is not a program that can be simply imposed on an operation; instead it is
a way of operating that permeates a business and the thinking of its employees.
Theodore B. Kinni
A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not
recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words to action.
Theodore Levitt
Generally, large companies are so inwardly directed that staff memorandums about growing bureaucracy get more attention than the dwindling competitive
advantage of being big in the first place. David, who has a life, needn't use a slingshot. Goliath, who doesn't, is too busy reading office memos.
Nicholas Negroponte
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
Kenichi Ohmae
I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At General
Motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is hire a consultant on snakes.
Ross Perot
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who
is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Women are becoming enormously successful ... They're running their businesses on what we call a familial
model, a family, instead of a hierarchical top-down military model. They work with, not over or for.
Faith Popcorn
In a small company, one person's hunch can be enough to launch a new product. In a
big company, the same concept is likely to be buried in committee for months.
Al Ries
The kind of brain-dead, gum chewing assistant you find in so many shops drives me
wild. I want everyone who works for me to feel the same excitement that I feel.
Anita Roddick
We need a can-do, vibrant, innovation-driven culture. Not wearing a tie is just a snippet of that.
Paul Walsh
An environment which calls for perfection is not likely to be easy. But aiming for it is always good for progress.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
I want to begin with what I think is the most important factor: our respect for the
individual. This is a simple concept, but in IBM it occupies a major portion of management time.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Look, you can take anything away from IBM ... but leave our people and this business will re-create itself overnight.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
They have this wonderful process of learning from direct experience called After Action Review,
in which everyone
who was involved sits down and the three questions are: What happened? Why do you think it happened? And what can we learn from
it? If you were ... able to get those three questions as part of your process, you could become a learning organization.
Walter Wriston
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