Quotes About Successful Organizations

#1. Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.

Guy Kawasaki

#2. Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#3. Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#4. Successful organizations and companies share the stage with their best storytellers. Brands are a collection of narratives. Unleash your best stories.

Carmine Gallo

#5. Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Seth Godin

#6. Successful organizations front-load accountability into their strategy. When front-loaded, accountability breeds better relationships, eliminates surprises, and vastly improves job satisfaction and performance.

Henry J. Evans

#7. There are fewer and fewer good jobs where you can get paid merely for showing up. Instead, successful organizations are paying for people who make a difference and are shedding everyone else. Just

Seth Godin

#8. Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

Ken Blanchard

#9. I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Mitch Kapor

#10. All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

Gary North

#11. Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

Guy Kawasaki

#12. Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

Chester Barnard

#13. The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

Patrick Lencioni

#14. attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward simultaneously.

Ryan Holiday

#15. For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

Mel Carnahan

#16. How could he have abandoned - no, shoved away the most important person in the world to him? The one person in the world to whom he, in turn, was also most important?
God, he was a monster.

Rachel Haimowitz

#17. Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.

Robert Shea

#18. I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

Don McCullin

#19. Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it.

Nina Easton

#20. My whole life, I heard, 'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg.' It's all I heard throughout elementary school.

Robin Lord Taylor

#21. I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

Renee Fleming

#22. One advantage of hierarchical, process-laden organizations is that it's easy to figure out with whom you need to talk: Just look for the right box on the right chart, and you've got your person. But the steady state of a successful Internet Century venture is chaos.

Eric Schmidt

#23. As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

Wendy Kopp

#24. The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

Don Tapscott

#26. Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

Leslie Stephen

#27. We don't have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

Arianna Huffington

#28. There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.

Hank Aaron

#29. And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.

R.A. Salvatore

#30. Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

David Livermore