Organization
Definition: An organized group of people with a particular purpose, such as a business or government department.
Number of Quotes: 20
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Copying other organizations' activities sounds like industrial espionage to
some people, but the truth is that benchmarking is perfectly legal and ethical.
Warren Bennis
Great nations need organizing principles, and Don't do stupid stuff
is not an organizing principle.
Atlantic Online interview, August 10, 2014.
Hillary Clinton
I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to
understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.
Michael Dell
Organizations that are change leaders are designed for change. But people need continuity ...
they do not function well if the environment is not predictable, not understandable, not known.
Peter Drucker
No organizational action has more power for motivating employee behavior change than feedback from credible work associates.
Mark R. Edwards
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
Richard Harkness
Others appear frozen in the headlights - aware of the likely impact, yet paralysed by the fear of major transformations.
Patricia Hewitt
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
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
The power of the position is giving way to the power of the person. A formal title and its placement on an organization
chart have less to do with career prospects and success ... than the skills and ideas a person brings to that work.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his
non-entity with an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
Marshall McLuhan
Organizations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
Narayana Murthy
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
Bureaucratic time ... slower than geologic time but more expensive than time spent with Madame Claude's girls in Paris.
P. J. O'Rourke
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
Kenichi Ohmae
Decision making by consensus has been the subject of a great deal of research ... evidence strongly suggests that a
consensus approach yields more creative decisions and more effective implementation than does individual decision making.
William Ouchi
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
However many people complain about the red tape
, it would be sheer illusion to think for a
moment that continuous administrative work can be carried out except by means of officials working in
offices ... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dilettantism in the field of administration.
Max Weber
From leaders, we need clear, consistent and honest attention to the identity of the organization. Identity shows up in
our actions, our visions, our relationships inside and out of the organization. Identity gets deepened as we do the work.
Walter Wriston
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