Longer Term Quote by Michael Bremer

The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.

— James Cook

“As Waterman has noted: In today’s business environment, more than in any preceding era, the only constant is change. Successful organizations effectively manage change,…

— Fred David

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

— Thomas J. Watson

Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent…

— Richard Pascale

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

“An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are less than…

— Clay Shirky

Every organization goes through a lifecycle where they eventually lose their initial speed or agility at a strategic level.

— John P. Kotter

“Most organizations fail to manage performance effectively because they fail to look into the system holistically.”

— Pearl Zhu

“An early lesson I learned in my career was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a…

— Ben Horowitz

“The critical task for management in each revolutionary period is to find a new set of organizational practices that will become the basis for…

— Larry Greiner

The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over…

— Peter Drucker

Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully…

— Peter Senge