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Quotes About Organization

Es mejor contar con un ejército pequeño y disciplinado que tener una turba ingente que retroceda o se rinda a las primeras de cambio.
~ Ken Follett
He would never get on anywhere except in an organization where fanaticism was more important than ability.
~ Ken Follett
A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that may make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.
~ Ken Schwaber
If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.
~ Ricardo Semler
All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
~ Edward Abbey
Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
~ Hal Draper
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
~ Peter Drucker
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.
~ Thomas A. Stewart
To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Order and system are nobler things than power.
~ John Ruskin
There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
~ Penny Lernoux
A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."
~ Russell L. Ackoff
It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.
~ Samuel Chadwick
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
~ William Pollard
Masters, spread yourselves.
~ William Shakespeare
There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man.
~ William Temple
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~ William W. Johnstone
I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.
~ Wilma Mankiller
It was astonishing, the visitors said, the way all the white men worked together and set up the road so quickly, each man like a limb of a hundred-legged bug, each doing just what was needed at the right moment. A small thing for each man, but when it was done right, the bug scooted fast. Crazy
~ Win Blevins
I enjoy visiting building sites. Unlike the ordered anonymity of office bureaucracy or the featureless regularity of a factory assembly line, a building site appears disorderly and chaotic. In fact, there is organization, but it is a loose orchestration of many separate trademen, working side by side but not necessarily together.
~ Witold Rybczynski
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
~ Woodrow Wilson