The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate. — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy.… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions. — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession. — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition. — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius. — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
