Large organizations don't worship shareholders or…

What we're trying to do is determine if our shareholders and customers have been misled. We can't think of a single shareholder who would…

— Chad Jones

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for…

— Geoffrey Canada

We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can…

— Donella Meadows

I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations…

— Shari Arison

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

— Aaron Swartz

“Much of the ability to help other people arises from personal power, but it would be naive to assert that nothing else is required.…

— Gerald M. Weinberg

I feel like the business side came more naturally to me along with the product design side, but managing and effectively leading large organizations…

— Stewart Butterfield

“Unfortunately, in a hierarchical structure, power relationships tend to determine the content; there is always the danger that a "rank-based" logic will prevail. Managers,…

— John Médaille

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Elon Musk should be at the top of the list of people to emulate when it comes to leading large organizations that are highly…

— Brandon Webb

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown…

— Meg Whitman

“In both small and large organizations, a successful guiding team may consist of only three to five people during the first year of a…

— Harvard Business School Press

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their…

— Peter Drucker

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on…

— Reid Hoffman

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods…

— Gary Hamel