“Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.” PeopleDoeMomentsFactsPurposeCultureFoundGivenBusinessRolesGroupsDefinitionsStupidityCorporateBatsWhalesDisdainCorporate Culture Author:Corinne Maier
“To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.” PeopleKnowsWayBelievePurposeBeliefI BelieveCommonBusinessPrinciplesKnow HowCreativeHealthyDegreesUnderstoodOrganizationCommandCodeBehaveAnother WayUnimaginableCommand And Control Author:Dee Hock
“...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.” ThinkingPurposeBusinessExistenceCompanyIssuesHigherUltimateOrganizationEntrepreneurProfitStrategicNoble Causes Author:Ray Anderson
“I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose - esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace - it's just been astonishing.” PeoplePurposeDiesBusinessCasesProductsHigherCostMotivatedSustainabilityCompellingAstonishingMarketplaceGoodwillHigher PurposeEsprit De Corps Author:Ray Anderson
“Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.” DoePurposeBusinessCompanyIndustryHollywoodSoupLaboratoryExperimentation Author:Orson Welles
“The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.” PurposeBusinessDisciplineBureaucracyIncompetenceGood To Great Author:James C. Collins
“...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.” MindPersonsBigsRunningPurposeBusinessCompanyBreakTechnologyRiskModernDangerProjectsLaborEmployeeInfrastructureCompletionBig PictureDiscrete Author:Dan Ariely
“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose” InspirationalMotivationalPurposeBusinessWorkplace Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.” ThinkingRealPurposeBusinessCompanyBest Company Author:Marjorie Scardino
“Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.” IfsHumansMotivationalPurposeBusinessExistenceWillingAmbitionDeterminationStakesSelf DeterminationWillpowerDetermination And SuccessWill And DeterminationDetermination MotivationalStrong WillHuman WillInspirational DeterminationBusiness EthicsLife DeterminationHuman Strength Author:Benjamin Disraeli