Quotes About Organization

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.

Francis Ford Coppola is completely unconventional. He has a strong sense of loyalty. Great eyes. It's a diabolical undertaking in terms of organization and leadership.