Organization Culture Quotes

#1. One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.

Geoffrey West

#2. The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

Lawrence M. Miller

#3. In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

Brian Chesky

#4. Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

Stephen Covey

#5. That's a remarkable concept: only when individuals can trust the culture or organization will they take personal risks in order to advance that culture or organization as a whole.

Simon Sinek

#6. Culture consists of the shared purpose, attitudes, values, goals, practices, behaviors, and habits that define a team or organization.

Jon Gordon

#7. An organization has to institutionalize its culture without bureaucratizing it.

Patrick Lencioni

#8. When you start paying attention to diversity, you notice it (and notice its absence!). And based on the culture of your upbringing and the culture of your organization, you may or may not be primed to think consciously about innovation.

David Livermore

#9. The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The key is not $, organization, cleverness or education. No matter the society or culture, the city or town, God has never lacked the power to work through available people to glorify his name.

Jim Cymbala

#10. Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

Masayoshi Son

#11. Jon and I talked several times on the phone about the state of the Falcons' organization and it became very clear that if I was going to turn this team around, the first step would be to focus on transforming the culture.

Jon Gordon

#12. If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Mary Douglas

#13. Workplace culture is the heartbeat of an organization, and either yields energy and motivates people to pursue greatness or sucks the inspiration out of employees and slowly brings a business to a grinding halt.

Kevin E. Phillips

#14. There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#15. People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.

Howard Schultz

#16. Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

Tony Hsieh

#17. An organization has integrity - is healthy - when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

Patrick Lencioni

#18. Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

Jim Highsmith

#19. When the culture of an organization mandates that it is more important to protect the reputation of a system and those in power than it is to protect the basic human dignity of individuals or communities, you can be certain that shame is systemic, money drives ethics, and accountability is dead.

Brene Brown

#20. The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Wendy Kopp

#21. Jesus never asked me to give to an organization the kind of exclusive devotion he demands from his disciples. Over and over, Jesus calls people to himself - out of the church, the culture, the economy, and the family.

Michael Spencer

#22. Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.

Warren Buffett

#23. How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

Bob Myers

#24. Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#25. A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Howard Gardner

#26. The fastest way to change the feedback culture in an organization is for the leaders to become better receivers.

Sheila Heen

#27. Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.

Oprah Winfrey

#28. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

Heather Simmons

#29. Centripetal organization unifying a culture in all its phases into a unique, coherent, and artistic form; the other a period of centrifugal disorganization in which creed and culture decompose in division and criticism, and end in a chaos of individualism, skepticism, and artistic aberrations.

Will Durant

#30. In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#31. A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their values, and their commitment to service excellence will drive the actions of others in the organization. Always has ... always will.

Mac Anderson

#32. It's always a challenge whenever you have to nurture more than one culture inside an organization. When I say culture, you have one group that will have one set of priorities, and another with another set. It creates a different cultural environment.

Charles Giancarlo

#33. The first step in turning around your organization's performance? Think positively about the people you lead.

Cheryl A. Bachelder

#34. Successful companies will almost always be described in terms of a clear strategy, good organization, strong corporate culture, and customer focus. But whether these things drive company performance, or whether they're mainly attributions based on performance, is a different matter.

Phil Rosenzweig

#35. Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

Edgar Schein

#36. As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership.

Amy Hood

#37. Culture is the organization's fingerprint.

Pearl Zhu

#38. Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.

Pearl Zhu

#39. Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an environment, and a culture that will make your entire organization flourish.

Kevin Allen

#40. The theory of cultural bias ... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

Mary Douglas

#41. We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.

Kevin Roberts

#42. We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.

Laszlo Bock

#43. One of the formulas to build a successful business is to nurture an "adaptability trait" in an organization's culture.

Pearl Zhu

#44. Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that's how deep it goes they don't want to know.

Shulamith Firestone

#45. Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System" of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.

Pearl Zhu

#46. I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language.

Frances Hesselbein

#47. If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.

Srikumar Rao

#48. I knew the biggest priority was to create a winning culture in which every member could thrive and excel. This meant we would not only have to create the right culture for the team but also for the rest of the organization.

Jon Gordon

#49. Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.

Bob Anderson

#50. Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team's or organization's culture. It's not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It's 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?

Bill Jensen

#51. The fundamental keys to the culture of any organization can only be achieved when everyone is on the same page.

Tony Dungy

#52. The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#53. MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren't talking about ethical codes, they aren't talking about forms of political organization, they don't speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.

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