Organizational Quotes - Page 3

• Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right; rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Men, Differences

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Organization, Design, Perception

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• Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.

  Jonathan Ive

  Titles, Lenses, Peers

  "9 Things We Learned About Apple From Jony Ive's Latest Interview" by Samuel Gibbs, www.businessinsider.com. June 17, 2014.

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• Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Leadership, Style, Engagement

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• I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.

  Raymond Franz

  Shifting, Authority, Accepting

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• Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Responsibility, Self, People

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• It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.

  Jesse Jackson, Jr.

  Powerful, Creating, World

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• It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Greatness, People, Rewards

  "Mark Zuckerberg, Moving Fast And Breaking Things". "Business Insider's series on Innovation" with Henry Blodget, www.sfgate.com. October 14, 2010.

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• People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  People, Accomplishment, Goal

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• The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.

  Asma Jahangir

  Government, People, Together

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• Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

  Lee Bolman

  Confusing, Excellence, Nails

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• To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly.

  Tom Peters

  Success, Real, Creativity

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• Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

  Paul Rice

  Self, Years, Entrepreneur

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• It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Play, Race

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• With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

  John Novak

  Culture, Tools, Six

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• A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue.

  George Kohlrieser

  Powerful, Team, Communication

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• It's right around this time that her Grandmother Hall dies. And Eleanor Roosevelt is responsible for making all the funeral arrangements. And there are a couple of things that she really understands, as she contemplates her grandmother's life and makes the funeral arrangements. One, she's really talented, an organizational woman. She knows how to do things. She begins to compare her life to her grandmother's life. And it's very clear to her that being a devoted wife and a devoted mother is not enough.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Couple, Wife

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that trust in leaders is low and nonetheless, organizations role along quite nicely.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Organization, People, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Each time we go through a major life change (getting married or divorced, moving, having a family, switching careers, starting a new business, going back to school), we experience a breakdown of our organizational systems. It's inevitable-we are dealing with a new set of realities-and it takes time to process the information and to actually see what there is to organize.

  Julie Morgenstern

  Life Changing, Moving, School

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• 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.

  Ella Baker

  Thinking, Self, Names

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Successful, Organization, Majority

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• Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas godly men, refusing to admit that these organizational structures are needed, live in states of chaos and disunity. The tragedy of this fact becomes evident when we realize that many of the successful systems of organization under which the godly men work and which the godly men refuse to accept are biblically based.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Godly, Successful, Men

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• Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

  Tom DeMarco

  Busy, Busy Work

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.29, Addison-Wesley

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• We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Moving, Technology, Justice

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• Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

  Max De Pree

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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