480 Quotes About Organization

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

The organization is, above all, social. It is people.