Adjustment Quote by Henry Mintzberg

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

— Peter Drucker

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they…

— Henry Mintzberg

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out…

— Ken Blanchard

Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

— Tom Peters

And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support.

— Sun Tzu

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how…

— Clayton Christensen

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Leaders determine the level of an organization.

— John C. Maxwell

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans…

— Charlton Ogburn

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is…

— Tom Rath

For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and…

— David Friedrich Strauss

“d. In designing your organization, remember that the 5-Step Process is the path to success and that different people are good at different steps.…

— Ray Dalio