Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
There are many structural changes, both in organizational practice and social policy, that must also change to enable men and women to… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes you lose - perhaps because you play against the very best, or because surprises happen - but if there is organizational… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
We love to think this fundamentalism and terrorism is all about poverty, and, of course, it has a connection. You can see… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
It's right around this time that her Grandmother Hall dies. And Eleanor Roosevelt is responsible for making all the funeral arrangements. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as… — Paul Rice Copy Share Image
It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Money is not capital in most of the developing countries. It's just cash. Because it lacks the institutional, organizational, managerial forms to… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating. — Lee Bolman Copy Share Image
Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists… — Lindsey Davis Copy Share Image
With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part. — John Novak Copy Share Image
What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility.… — Ray Stata Copy Share Image
In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints… — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success. — Subir Chowdhury Copy Share Image
We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of… — George Eldon Ladd Copy Share Image
The impact of organizational health goes far beyond the walls of a company, extending to customers and vendors, even to spouses and… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image