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Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people. -- Richard Pascale
Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust. -- Peter Drucker
Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. -- Theodore Levitt
Organizations should say and do the things they ACTUALLY believe. -- Simon Sinek
Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations, -- Barry Boehm
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period. -- Tom Peters
Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively. -- Mark Millar
Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are. -- Daniel Kahneman
Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources -- Henry Mintzberg
Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans. -- Guy Kawasaki
Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate. -- Chip Conley
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation. -- Theodore Levitt
Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders. -- Frances Hesselbein
Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message -- Seth Godin
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable. -- Seth Godin
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails. -- Bob Barr
Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak. -- Kevin Kelly
Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did. -- Russell L. Ackoff
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. -- John L. Lewis
With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either. You've got to listen. You've got to learn how to influence. -- Ellen J. Kullman
Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself. -- Kent Beck
Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. -- Ernest Hemingway
So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government. -- Betty Hill
Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money. -- Ben Carson
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. -- Theodor Adorno
Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood. -- Felicity Huffman
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo. -- John P. Kotter
No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place. -- Cofer Black
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses. -- Stephen Covey
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support. -- AnnaLynne McCord
So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children. -- Walter Dean Myers
It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require. -- Dee Hock
Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. -- Joel Salatin
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations. -- Stokely Carmichael
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part. -- Margaret Chan
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse. -- Jonathan Sacks
We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela. -- Paul Hawken
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem. -- Steven Johnson
I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together. -- Tim Berners-Lee
In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Now that we've discovered how to actually develop policies and projects holistically, if we can get the barriers out of the way and release the creativity that's in our universities, our farming organizations, amongst our farmers and land managers, we'll be astounded. As I'd like to express it, the human spirit will fly. -- Allan Savory
Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets. -- Tim Scott
One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed. -- Herman Cain
Strong leaders equal strong organizations. -- John C. Maxwell
Most organizations fail in driving change. -- Jack Welch
People join organizations, they leave managers. -- Bill Hybels
Players dont win championships, organizations do! -- Jerry Krause
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. -- Warren Bennis
Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation. -- Dick Taylor
More organizations die of indigestion than starvation -- David Packard
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. -- Warren Bennis
Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities. -- Peter Drucker
Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers. -- Ken Blanchard
Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations -- Seth Godin
Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations -- Stephen Covey
I'm not a joiner. I don't like organizations. -- Bill Maher
Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem. -- Jeff Henderson
We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations. -- Dick Van Patten
Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world. -- Moshe Katsav
Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae. -- Ricardo Semler
We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations. -- Paul Cellucci
Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. -- Shirley Chisholm
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous. -- Kenichi Ohmae
Strong organizations with strong risk controls will survive and prosper. -- Arpad Busson
Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants, -- Scott Raab
For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny. -- Tony Hsieh
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs. -- Charley Pride
Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today -- Nancy Duarte
In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle. -- Peter Drucker
Governance allows organizations...t o use critical data to drive the organization. -- Dick Taylor
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. -- Bill Gates
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved -- Bill Gates
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them. -- James C. Collins
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. -- Warren Bennis
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. -- Warren Bennis
Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate. -- Nancy Pearcey
To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations. -- Don Tapscott
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity -- William Hunter
I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community. -- Jonathan Tisch
I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations. -- Colum McCann
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done -- Hyman Rickover
Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image. -- Jerry Falwell
I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. -- Arthur Hertzberg
I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did. -- Nolan Ryan
You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating. -- Bill Keller
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. -- Charles Evans Hughes
Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition. -- Chester Barnard
To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper. -- Holly Duckworth
I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need. -- Carl Karcher
The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations. -- Joe Biden
I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard. -- Don Lemon
I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.' -- Ridley Scott
Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations. -- Pervez Musharraf
Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations. -- Manning Marable
Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible. -- Buzz Aldrin
There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations. -- Kent Beck
The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations. -- Silvan Shalom
The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil. -- Larry Osborne
Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own. -- Starhawk
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. -- Peter Drucker
Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money. -- Ben Carson
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. -- Warren Bennis
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. -- Warren Bennis
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission -- Seth Godin
The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. -- Peter Senge
High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play. -- Andy Hargreaves
Many organizations have put off critical upgrades or new projects to make sure ICD-10 was survivable. -- Dick Taylor
Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global. -- Robert D. Kaplan
The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It's a process, not an event. -- Seth Godin
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. -- Henning Mankell

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