Arranging Quote by Herbert Simon

“It is a central thesis of this book that centralization has reached diminishing returns and is no longer yielding any benefit. Instead, it has…

— Charles Hugh Smith

The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates…

— Naomi Klein

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

— Jack Welch

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the…

— Al Gore

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come…

— Michael Gerber

“It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less…

— Abhijit V. Banerjee

“You can contrast the system in nature with a system in a human-built organization like a corporation. Hardly anything happens to benefit an organization…

— Bill Nye

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to…

— John Naisbitt

“One of the axioms of organizing is that you organize people where they are, and where people are, in much of their lives, is…

— James DeFilippis

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

— John Maeda

“Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized…

— Charles Perrow