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Organization Quotes by Peter Drucker
- Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
- The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here,…
- Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
- The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
- Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
- The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
- No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings…
- The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you…
- Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.
- A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of…
- Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with…
- Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities.
- Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.
- To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent
- Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization…
- Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along togetherâ€; the test is performance not conformance.
- Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving…
- Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
- People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were…
- Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
More Organization Quotes
- Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult… — John C. Maxwell
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
- Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. — Warren G. Bennis
- Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors?… — Elayne Boosler