Quotes About Organization

Divided responsibility means that nobody is responsible.

Management of a system, cooperation between components, not competition. Management of people.

The most important figures needed for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

A new president came, talked with the head of sales, design, manufacturing, consumer research, and so forth. Everybody was doing a superb job, and had been doing so for years. Nobody had any problems. Yet somehow or other the company was going down the tube. Why? The answer was simple. Each staff area was sub-optimizing its own work, but not working as a team for the company.

The job of management is to replace work standards by knowledgeable and intelligent leadership.

On idea of merit rating) Everyone propels himself forward or tries to, for his own good, on his own life preserver. The organization is the loser. Merit rating rewards people that do well in the system. It does not reward attempts to improve the system. Don't rock the boat.

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

Now then, we've had a capital lunch, and we're quite ready. Have all the painful preparations been made?

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

Manage your life as you manage your money.

The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.

In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.