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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. -- William S. Burroughs
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day. -- Tom DeMarco
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition -- Henry Mintzberg
In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job. -- Mary Cunningham Agee
Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business. -- Patrick Lencioni
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. -- Thomas Sowell
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else. -- Gary Hamel
I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy. -- Gretchen Carlson
We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly. -- Os Guinness
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing. -- Marvin Bower
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check. -- Ben Horowitz
Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning. -- Chris Argyris
In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design. -- Thomas A. Stewart
With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part. -- John Novak
The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health. -- Patrick Lencioni
Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead. -- Mac Anderson
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. -- Stephen Covey
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. -- Harold S. Geneen
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos... -- Anne Fadiman
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. -- Andrew Carnegie
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others -- Morton Feldman
It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence. -- Andrew Harvey
High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty. -- Price Pritchett
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure. -- Alan Hirsch
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority. -- Stanley Milgram
Major organizational changes create uncertainty. -- Irene Rosenfeld
You have to have that organizational principle behind the song. -- Tom Verlaine
The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise. -- Roger Stone
I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best. -- John Liu
Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations. -- Warren Bennis
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. -- Harold S. Geneen
In 2010 and 2012, I won the Democratic nomination in the 22nd Congressional District on the program 'Save NASA Impeach Obama,' without any organizational or financial backing from the party. -- Kesha Rogers
By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives. -- Ryan Holmes
It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work! -- Susan Wojcicki
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others. -- Morton Feldman
Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace. -- Simon Mainwaring
We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles. -- David Weinberger
Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture. -- Muhammad Yunus
We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. -- Mukesh Ambani
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well. -- Rem Koolhaas
You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more. -- Lloyd Blankfein
For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper. -- Russell Crowe
I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case. -- Jim Yong Kim
As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases. -- Andy Stanley
Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence. -- George S. Patton
Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership. -- John C. Maxwell
Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success. -- Subir Chowdhury
Titles or organizational structures, that's not the lens through which we see our peers, -- Jonathan Ive
I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer. -- James Alison
Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face. -- William Bridges
And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support. -- Sun Tzu
Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence. -- Marcus Buckingham
No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself. -- Robert Genn
We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture. -- John P. Kotter
Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating. -- Lee Bolman
Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals. -- Kevin Kelly
Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping. -- Max de Pree
... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals. -- Gichin Funakoshi
Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth. -- Anodea Judith
In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on. -- Matthew Stewart
In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture. -- Edgar Schein
Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities. -- Rosalynn Carter
The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot. -- Asma Jahangir
I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word. -- Raymond Franz
The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational. -- Donald A. Norman
I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making. -- Erich Fromm
I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much. -- Ray Stata
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos..." -- Anne Fadiman
Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals. -- Jerry I. Porras
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day -- Kofi Annan
People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure. -- Leonard Read
Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales. -- Peter Dicken
Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result... -- Adolf Hitler
It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church. -- George Eldon Ladd
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern. -- Edmund Leach
With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that trust in leaders is low and nonetheless, organizations role along quite nicely. -- Jeffrey Pfeffer
The customer demands simplicity, that organizations organize around them. Easy to use is a customer tsunami ripping across the world. Ease of use and simplicity must now be at the heart of organizational strategy. -- Gerry McGovern
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization. -- Ben Horowitz
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation. -- John Seely Brown

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