Achievement Quote by Charles E. Sorensen

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

— Evan Wright

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

— Stanley Nelson Jr

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

— Larry McMurtry

If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.

— W. Edwards Deming

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

— George Chapman

“Some organizations will declare defeat, pointing to the smallest backsliding as evidence that people can’t be trusted, that employees need rules and oversight to…

— Laszlo Bock

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

“Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence (Peter’s Paradox): they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who…

— Laurence J. Peter

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch…

— Keith Olbermann

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

— Kevin Kelly

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

— Masha Gessen