The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make. — 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
