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“The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.”

“The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have directly stressed that state interventions create corporatist forms... the formation, let alone the political capabilities, of such purely socioeconomic phenomena as interest groups and classes depends in significant measure on the structures and activities of the very states the social actors, in turn, seek to influence.”

“Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.”

People Self Levels Responsibility Leader Share Empowering Empowered Organizational Upheaval

Author:Rosalynn Carter

“I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.”

Humans Made Found Accepting Equal Authority Statements Reasoning Interpretation Shifting Organizational Unchangeable

Author:Raymond Franz

“The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.”

Has Beens Important Culture Individual Creation Products Development Innovation Corporate Unpredictable Rapids Aptitude Organizational Product Development

Author:John Seely Brown

“You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.”

People Want Needs Mean Littles Helping Opinion Boss Goodwill Subordinates Organizational

Author:Lloyd Blankfein

“I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.”

Long Individual Business Creativity Technology Limits Innovation Inspired Individuality Conclusion Long Ago Organizational Agility

Author:Ray Stata

“Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.”

People Thinking Faces Leadership Loss Organizational

Author:William Bridges

“When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.”

Real Body Reality Members Organization Entity Organizational Real Power

Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“The customer demands simplicity, that organizations organize around them. Easy to use is a customer tsunami ripping across the world. Ease of use and simplicity must now be at the heart of organizational strategy.”

World Heart Use Easy Demand Organization Strategy Simplicity Customers Ease Organize Organizational Tsunami Ease Of Use

Author:Gerry McGovern

“Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.”

Way Jobs Greater Focus Team Performances Excellence Satisfaction Organizational Job Satisfaction

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.”

“The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others”

Interesting Aspect Patterns Procedures Most Interesting Composing Organizational Precedence

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The impact of organizational health goes far beyond the walls of a company, extending to customers and vendors, even to spouses and children. It sends people to work in the morning with clarity, hope, and anticipation and brings them home at night with a greater sense of accomplishment, contribution, and self-esteem. The impact of this is as important as it is impossible to measure.”

Source: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

“Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.”

Advantage Organizational Competitive Advantage

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.”

Structure Titles Peers Lenses Organizational Organizational Structure

Author:Jonathan Ive

“Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.”

“Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.”

Philosophy Spirit Economic Achievement Resources Organization Innovation Structure Relative Timing Technological Organizational Organizational Structure Economic Resources

Book:THE WILL TO MANAGE CORPORATE THROUGH PROGRAMMED MANAGEMENT

Source: THE WILL TO MANAGE CORPORATE THROUGH PROGRAMMED MANAGEMENT

“Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.”

Leadership Steps Listening Conscience Intelligent Careful Crucial Organizational

Author:Subir Chowdhury

“I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.”

Children Home School House Stuff Rooms Seasons Shoes Soccer Organized Uniforms Organize Fanatics Dump Lockers Organizational Locker Room

Author:Kathryn Sansone

“Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.”

People Individual Mistake Path Design Communication Ambition Organization Bottom Organizational

Author:Ben Horowitz

“It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.”

World Care Powerful Poverty Economy Creating Claims Health Care Logical Boast Funding Integrated Incompetence Organizational Health Care System

Author:Jesse Jackson, Jr.

“It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.”

People Should Process Leadership Mistake Leader Environment Failing Healthy Normal Excellence Strive Not Afraid Organizational Afraid To Fail Striving For Excellence Healthy Environment

Author:Andrew Harvey

“People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.”

People Ifs Reason Goal Achievement Rewards Celebrate Accomplishment Crucial Celebration Good Sense Organizational

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.”

Problem Masters Excellence Managers Behave Nails Confusing Frustrating Hammers Organizational

Author:Lee Bolman

“The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.”

People Body Government Together Nations United Pot United Nations Melting Organizational Melting Pot Unesco

Author:Asma Jahangir

“To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly.”

“Endeavor's partnership with Bain took off at just the right moment. We were embarking on our '3.0' organizational strategy, and thanks to the compelling analysis, entrepreneurial zeal and tireless commitment of our Bain team, we've emerged with a world-class plan. We look forward to continuing our high-impact work with Bain!”

“Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth.”

Earth Energy Force Heaven Stones Heaven And Earth Assimilation Stepping Stones Transmission Reception Chakra Organizational

Book:Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras

Source: Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras

“Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.”

Made Jesus Grows Clear Seeds Kingdoms Kingdom Of God Organizational

Author:Os Guinness

“Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead.”

Ends Values Forget Leader Example Employee Never Forget Organizational

Author:Mac Anderson

“What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.”

Form Differences Structure Details Communism Fascism Individualism Insignificant Authoritarianism Organizational Organizational Structure Communism And Fascism

Author:Leonard Read

“Here is Max De Pree at his best, and that is very good indeed. In Leading Without Power, De Pree shows us why we cannot master the how-to-dos of effective leadership without also being clear about what leaders?and followers?must be. In doing so, he not only provides us with much practical wisdom about creative leading and organizational health, he also nurtures our souls. This is a book to be savored by all who care about such things as vision, faithfulness, trust, and hope.”

Book Soul Shows Care Leader Vision Creative Clear Masters Very Good Practicals Followers Nurture Who Cares Faithfulness Max Effective Leadership Organizational This Is A Book

Author:Richard J. Mouw

“In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.”

Spirit Jesus Community Movement Built Structure Missions Agents Radical Organized Ministry Disciple Empowered Organizational Lordship Apostolic Organizational Structure

Book:The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church

Source: The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church

“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day”

Able Universe Work Lord Five Wonderful Months Advantage Seven Reform Organizational Seven Days

Author:Kofi Annan

“Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.”

Long Ideas Matter Running Success Individual Findings Models Structure Enterprise Discovering Long Runs What Matters Organizational Business Models Organizational Structure

Author:Jerry I. Porras

“Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.”

People Action Creative Knowing Protect Organization Innovation Structure Unusual Typical Bureaucracy Creative People Organizational Legalism Organizational Structure Knowledge And Action

Author:Max De Pree

“How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.”

Thinking Ideas Hope Modern Mathematics Patterns Math Conclusion Mathematical Arriving Organizational Generalization Anthropologists

Author:Edmund Leach

“It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.”

Government Age Church Essentials Elements Structure Patterns Theology Organizational Apostolic Organizational Structure

Book:A Theology of the New Testament

Source: A Theology of the New Testament

“Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to bring a place back to life with a holistic approach. If anyone understands the complete revitalization process, it's Storm Cunningham. He's spent over a decade rigorously studying successes and failures worldwide. He can look at a community, regional, or organizational regeneration or redevelopment process, and quickly spot what's wrong...what's missing.”

“With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.”

“In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.”

Culture Effort Easier Draws Overcoming Constraints Organizational

Author:Edgar Schein

“I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.”

Thinking Wells Ends Play Term Roles Discipline Program Structure Profession Architecture Abstraction Defining Organizational Organizational Structure

Author:Rem Koolhaas

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