Ambition Quote by Ben Horowitz

It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an…

— Andrew Harvey

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“large companies do not usually have efficient communication paths from the people closest to some of these changes at the bottom of the company…

— Adam Lashinsky

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most…

— George Washington

The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to…

— William L. McKnight

Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation,…

— Douglas Engelbart

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

— Henry Petroski

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes.…

— Jonah Lehrer

The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

“After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff…

— Alan G. Robinson

“Most organizations fail to manage performance effectively because they fail to look into the system holistically.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.”

— Christina Scalise