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With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part. -- John Novak
We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture. -- John P. Kotter
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
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. -- Mary Douglas
The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization. -- Wendy Kopp
If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization. -- Srikumar Rao
The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples. -- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions. -- Howard Schultz
The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization. -- Mary Douglas
As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership. -- Amy Hood
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
The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time. -- Steven Sinofsky
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing. -- Geoffrey West
It's always a challenge whenever you have to nurture more than one culture inside an organization. When I say culture, you have one group that will have one set of priorities, and another with another set. It creates a different cultural environment. -- Charles Giancarlo
People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded. -- Howard Schultz
A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization. -- Howard Gardner
People have come to me over the years and said to me: 'I admire the culture of Starbucks. Can you come give a speech and help us turn our culture around?' I wish it were that easy. Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions. -- Howard Schultz
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

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