Big decisions Quote by Adam Lashinsky

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

— Anonymous

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

— Ben Horowitz

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs…

— Frank Luntz

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the…

— Ben Horowitz

“Communication would no longer have to go through hierarchical channels. The exchange of information was key to our business, of course, but I believed…

— Ed Catmull

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to…

— Joseph Badaracco

One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk…

— Kenneth C. Frazier

Many companies routinely do things that are not important. They fail to prioritize. They get involved with details that don't matter.

— Michael J. Silverstein

Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if…

— Al Ries

“We have relied on the wirearchy to make the hierarchy work. In every organisation today, employees must work their way around broken processes; they…

— Isabel De Clercq

“Only a handful of companies understand that all successful business operations come down to three basic principles: People, Product, Profit. Without TOP people, you…

— Malcolm Forbes

“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