“The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational.” UseProblemSocialProductsDevelopmentEasierMajorsErrorsTechnologicalOrganizationalMajor Problems Author:Donald A. Norman
“To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.” FirstsQualityCompanyAcceptingSuccessfulModernProductsStructureWorkersProfitProductivityThriveCustomsQuality Of LifePremisesOrganizationalModern TimesAccepting ChangeSuccessful CompanyOrganizational Structure Author:Ricardo Semler
“In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.” KindDoeFactsCausesProcessTechnologyEconomicParticularProductsActivityStructureAgentsInevitableOutcomesArrangementsEnablingOrganizationalNew ProductsNew Processes Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century
“I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.” ThinkingSelfWholeNamesInterestWhiteCareersProductsPeriodsDegreesGenerousProjectionOrganizational Author:Ella Baker