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“In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.”

World Needs Country Government Age Values Failing One Thing Air Succeed Organization Glasses Islands Agency Linked Shareholders Stakeholder Government Agencies Business Organization

Author:Don Tapscott

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Source: Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

“Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.”

Hands Results Failing Genius Organization Efficiency Incompetent Disorganization

Book:The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956

Source: The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956

“I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.”

“Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.”

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Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.”

“Most organizations fail in driving change.”

Failing Organization Driving

Author:Jack Welch

“The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.”

People Way Desire Goal Secret Failing Organization Bigger Reaching Willingness Secret To Success

Author:Seth

“The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.”

Ifs Want Powerful Leader Failing Risk Industry Organization Not Afraid Permission Better Place Very Powerful Taking Risks

Author:Rick Welts

“There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly.”

People World Needs Government Faces Issues Failing Aspect Organization Changing The World Tackling Nonprofits

Author:Annie Lennox