Able Quote by Peter Drucker

An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.

— Nita Ambani

By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions -…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

— Lou Gerstner

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people…

— Peter Drucker

The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

— Wadada Leo Smith

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human…

— Peter Drucker

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

— Peter Drucker

Institutions need a lifetime to realize their potential.

— Roshni Nadar

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted…

— M. Scott Peck

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

— Edward Abbey

Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a…

— Chris Hedges

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It…

— Guy Debord