Organizational Behavior Quotes

#1. In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.

Matthew Stewart

#2. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

Mary Cunningham Agee

#3. I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

Gretchen Carlson

#4. Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

Warren Bennis

#5. Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.

Eraldo Banovac

#6. A good systems thinker, particularly in an organizational setting, is someone who can see four levels operating simultaneously: events, patterns of behavior, systems, and mental models.

Art Kleiner

#7. Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you've got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you've got a herd.

Henry V. O'Neil

#9. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Heather Simmons

#10. Death tripped down the corridor, changing step, struck out here and there, danced pirouettes; often I felt his breath on my face when he was miles away; often I fell asleep and dreamed while he stood leaning over my bed.

Arthur Koestler

#11. A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#12. She is the ocean crashing into me, tossing me, drowning me.

Heidi Acosta

#13. Regarding quality, the following rule is very important: do each activity right at the first time with the aim of saving money and time. Regardless of the process under consideration, the activities that were carried out badly may cause repetitions with considerable additional costs.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

Michael Hudson