Chester Barnard Quotes

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• The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
• Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.
• 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…
• A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
• Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality…
• To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
• It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.
• A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

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