Quotes About Effective Organizations

#1. The most effective organizations, I am told, have both a "good boss" and a "bad boss," who work closely together. One holds us strongly, while the other speaks hard truth to us and sets clear goals and limits for us.

Richard Rohr

#2. Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people
and allow people to place themselves
according to their strengths.

Peter Drucker

#3. Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#4. In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

Daniel H. Pink

#5. Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

Frances Hesselbein

#6. The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

Rand Paul

#7. An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?

Snoop Dogg

#8. Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.

James C. Collins

#9. I love Cate Blanchett; I think she's brilliant.

Judy Greer

#10. CARE and our partner organizations have found that one of the most effective ways of stopping child marriage is to tap into a parent's love for their child. When parents learn about the consequences of child marriage, they're far less likely to push their children into it.

Helene D. Gayle

#11. I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but ... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me ...

Claude Monet

#12. Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Chris Murray

#13. Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

Leo Buscaglia

#14. Conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#15. In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.

Matthew Reilly

#16. The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

Stephen Malkmus

#17. Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Michael Martin Hammer

#18. Organizations are composed of people, and the more effective those people, the stronger the organization.

Stephen R. Covey

#19. Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.

Peter Drucker

#20. The work being done by Linklaters to help organizations understand keys to success in the development sector serves as an important international affairs issue and crucial element in how all of us work to support service provision in impoverished communities in a lasting and effective way.

Ann Cotton

#21. Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.

Bill Crawford

#22. It doesn't matter what clothes you had or what shoes you had, or how cool you were, or how many Facebook friends you garnered, what will matter in the end is what weapons you had, how many zombies you killed, and how long you survived.

Caleb Eversole

#23. When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him like a flood.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#24. Beauty is so rare a th
Sing a new song
Real
Music
A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A
Visiting card
- from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958]

Jack Spicer

#25. The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

Curious George Brigade

#26. You're gifted to do something.

Karen Kingsbury

#27. To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.

Holly Duckworth

#28. A conclusion is not the point at which you reach the truth, it's only the point at which the exploring stops.

David Cain