Decay Quote by James A. Garfield

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

— Anonymous

The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along…

— Seth

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies…

— Elbert Hubbard

A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to…

— Charlie Munger

A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the…

— Paul Singer

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those…

— Alan Cranston

In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and be as…

— Thomas Pogge

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

— Fareed Zakaria

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

— Denis Waitley

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied,…

— Robert Shea

At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to…

— Stephen Covey