Top 100 Organizational Quotes
#1. Doing scrum" is as meaningless (and impossible) as creating an instance of an abstract class. Scrum is a framework for surfacing organizational dysfunction. It is not a process and it is not prescriptive.
Tobias Mayer
#2. Systems that are too complex to understand kill organizational productivity and the ease with which you can add engineers or add functionality to your system.
Martin L. Abbott
#3. Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.
Jerry I. Porras
#4. Learning" and "Performance" are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance.
Pearl Zhu
#5. Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
Tom DeMarco
#7. By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives.
Ryan Holmes
#8. Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#9. The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.
Bryant McGill
#10. Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result ...
Adolf Hitler
#11. In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#12. Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
Oliver E. Williamson
#13. Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.
Eraldo Banovac
#14. Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
William Bridges
#15. The first step in turning around your organization's performance? Think positively about the people you lead.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#16. We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#17. We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.
John P. Kotter
#18. I don't really like organizations where people are "deemed" things.
Mindy Kaling
#19. 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
#20. In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.
Thomas A. Stewart
#21. I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.
John Liu
#22. This isn't just a book about organizational change - it's also about
Daryl R. Conner
#23. Leaders can create a high productivity level by providing the appropriate organizational structure and job design, and by acknowledging and appreciating hard work.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#24. HR is My Area of Interest Where I Can Utilize My Professional Skills Throughout Fill The Gaps Between Organizational Goals With Employees Goals.
Avinash Advani
#25. By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
Ben Horowitz
#26. Pastors, elders, and members often misinterpret the church through business and organizational lenses.
Jeramie Rinne
#27. Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success - creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.
Bill Jensen
#28. People are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#29. The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.
Pearl Zhu
#30. Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.
Peter Dicken
#31. No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
Robert Genn
#32. Leaders must embrace those they need the most versus holding them hostage.
Curt Coffman
#33. Though there are both hard and soft business elements in building organizational capabilities. Still, people are the capability masters.
Pearl Zhu
#34. With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that trust in leaders is low and nonetheless, organizations role along quite nicely.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#35. 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
#36. We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization's success a reality.
Vern Dosch
#37. It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.
Jesse Jackson Jr.
#38. The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.
Pearl Zhu
#39. Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.
Oli Anderson
#40. In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.
Edgar Schein
#41. 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
#42. When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#43. When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos ...
Anne Fadiman
#44. You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
Lloyd Blankfein
#45. 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
#46. Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#47. Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.
George S. Patton
#48. Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
Thomas Sowell
#49. Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition
Henry Mintzberg
#51. Developing a Culture of Accountability where people take ownership for achieving key organizational results requires a willingness to make the link between where you are and what you have done with where you want to be and what you are going to do to get there.
Roger Connors
#52. Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right; rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.
Elizabeth Lesser
#53. It would seem that most everything we do in the name of organizational effectiveness is antithetical to what Life requires
Harrison Owen
#54. In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.
Frederick Lenz
#55. Today, brands are not the preserve of marketing department. Brands are too important to be left to the marketing department - or any other 'department,' come to that. Organizational ghettoes do not create vibrant world-changing brands.
Thomas Gad
#56. Organizational systems and cultures tend to favor "stars" over groups,
Anonymous
#57. The overall organizational health needs to be measured via employee engagement, culture readiness, business agility, and customer-centricity, etc.
Pearl Zhu
#58. By bringing together people who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, social media has the potential to transform the workplace into an environment where learning is as natural as it is powerful.
Marcia Conner
#59. Single-minded, determined, and intelligent organizational talent probably can create an effective army from any group of men.
Trevor N. Dupuy
#60. Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.
Gichin Funakoshi
#61. In 2010 and 2012, I won the Democratic nomination in the 22nd Congressional District on the program 'Save NASA Impeach Obama,' without any organizational or financial backing from the party.
Kesha Rogers
#62. Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System" of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.
Pearl Zhu
#63. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.
Oli Anderson
#64. If just a tiny fraction of the sums spent on scientific and technological research and innovation were devoted to labs for designing and testing new organizational and institutional structures, we might have a much broader range of options to head off the looming implosion.
Alvin Toffler
#65. 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
#66. The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#68. John-Paul did not have the requisite organizational abilities to handle bigamy. He would have slipped up long ago. Turned up at the wrong house. Called one of his wives by the wrong name. He'd be constantly leaving his possessions at the other place.
Liane Moriarty
#69. As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.
Andy Stanley
#70. I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
Rem Koolhaas
#71. It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.
George Eldon Ladd
#72. I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.
Justin Greene
#73. Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Harold S. Geneen
#74. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
#75. Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.
Bob Anderson
#76. Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
Marcus Buckingham
#77. Titles or organizational structures, that's not the lens through which we see our peers,
Jonathan Ive
#78. Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth.
Anodea Judith
#79. Abolishing hierarchies thus means that people would not have set roles or tasks, but rather that these are in line with their skills and the necessary performance at a given time
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#80. The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
Oliver E. Williamson
#81. One of the primary mistakes that leaders today make, when called to lead, is spending most of their time and energy trying to improve things at the organizational level before ensuring that they have adequately addressed their own credibility at individual, one-on-one, or team leadership levels.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#82. I think of everything and I'm pretty sure if I could use my organizational skills for something else, like wildlife survival kits or preparing people for nuclear warfare, I'd be a millionaire. Or at the very least actually a useful human being.
Corey Ann Haydu
#83. Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete information at any given time to make a decision.
Timothy Ferriss
#84. The use of KPIs is meant to improve and transform the organizational performance.
Pearl Zhu
#85. The high-mature organizational capability is the digital business differentiator, to keep the business unique, competitive, innovative, and improve the overall business maturity significantly.
Pearl Zhu
#86. The first rule of organizational design is that all organizational designs are bad.
Ben Horowitz
#87. We distinguish integrity as a phenomenon of the objective state or condition of an object, system, person, group, or organizational entity, and define integrity as: a state or condition of being whole, complete, unbroken, unimpaired, sound, perfect condition.
Werner Erhard
#88. Good leaders seize crises to remake organizational habits.
Charles Duhigg
#89. Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
Os Guinness
#90. Oh, a Container Store," I gush upon seeing the organizational store.
"Does that get you all hot and bothered, Chloe? Did you want to stop?"
"Shut up," I say as we cross the street. "Maybe later.
Jana Aston
#91. Similarly it is possible that the system itself is sick, even though the actors within the organization are behaving in accord with organizational etiquette and respecting the internal bonds of trust. That
Glenn Greenwald
#92. All organizations have habits and cultures. The question is whether they are designed deliberately, or allowed to form without guidance. Dysfunctional cultures tend to come from the latter. Organizational
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#93. With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.
John Novak
#94. You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.
Tom Verlaine
#95. Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs - their real jobs.
Liz Weber
#96. Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
Marvin Bower
#97. It is common understanding that communication is at the heart of any organisation. So, why have organisational models not evolved accordingly? To truly leverage the potential of this information age, we need to rethink and redesign organisations
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#98. Long ago, I stopped buying- let alone reading, books that talk about organizational success but fail to emphasize the importance of TRUST
Assegid Habtewold
#99. Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) has brought me in touch with hundreds more such practitioners.
Peter M. Senge
#100. No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.
William S. Burroughs
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