ORGANIZATION QUOTES
quotations about organization
An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are less than the transaction costs of managing them.
CLAY SHIRKY
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Like people, organizations are always in transition.
ELIZABETH SMITH
Creating Productive Organizations: Developing Your Work Force
Organization takes the fun out of everything.
KELLY MORAN
Winter's Path
Organization is as old as human society itself.
JAMES D. MOONEY
Onward Industry!
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
MARGARET WHEATLEY
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
PETER DRUCKER
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
If an organization is to learn anything, then the distribution of its memory, the accuracy of that memory, and the conditions under which that memory is treated as a constraint become crucial characteristics of organizing.
KARL E. WEICK
"Organizational Memory", Academy of Management Review
The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Calvin Coolidge: His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
Organisms organize.
JAMES GLEICK
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Man experiences a multitude of needs, on whose satisfaction his happiness depends, and whose non-satisfaction entails suffering. Alone and isolated, he could only provide in an incomplete, insufficient manner for these incessant needs. The instinct of sociability brings him together with similar persons, and drives him into communication with them. Therefore, impelled by the self-interest of the individuals thus brought together, a certain division of labor is established, necessarily followed by exchanges. In brief, we see an organization emerge, by means of which man can more completely satisfy his needs than he could living in isolation.
GUSTAVE DE MOLINARI
The Production of Security
Possibly the model of the world as a great organization can help to reinforce the sense of reverence for the living which we have almost lost.
LUDWIG VON BERTALANFFY
"General System Theory", Main Currents in Modern Thought
The essence of an organisation is not the bricks, or the people, but the means in which these are combined.
PAUL GRISERI
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Management
We create organizations to serve us, but somehow they also force us to serve them.
HENRY MINTZBERG
Mintzberg on Management
Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems.
HOWARD E. ALDRICH
Organizations and Environments
I firmly believe that any organization, in order to survive and achieve success, must have a sound set of beliefs on which it premises all its policies and actions. Next I believe that the most important single factor in corporate success is faithful adherence to those beliefs. And, finally I believe if an organization is to meet the challenge of a changing world, it must be prepared to change everything about itself except those beliefs.
THOMAS WATSON, JR.
attributed, Organisation and Identities: Text and Readings in Organizational Behaviour
The organized identity of man consists in a participation of the same continued life, by constantly fleeting particles in succession vitally united to the same organized body.
JOHN LOCKE
attributed, Day's Collacon
In every organization, factions speak louder than words.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The test of any scheme of factory organization is the extent to which it creates and fosters the atmosphere and spirit of cooperation and good-will, without in any sense lessening the loyalty of the worker to his own class and its organizations.
EDWARD CADBURY
Experiments in Industrial Organization
This natural organization is called society. The object of society is therefore the most complete satisfaction of man's needs. The division of labor and exchange are the means by which this is accomplished.
GUSTAVE DE MOLINARI
The Production of Security
Almost every organization ... exhibits two faces -- a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outside.
KENNETH BOULDING
The Organizational Revolution: A Study in the Ethics of Economic Organization