Organization Quotes - Page 36

• Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

  Theodore Levitt

  Order, Innovation, Routine

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• For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Character, Destiny

  FaceBook post by Tony Hsieh from Feb 12, 2014

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• The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation. These organizations strive to the greatest degree to provide homes for animals and to encourage adoption, to spay and neuter animals. And if a decision is made to euthanize, it is a failure of society, not the local organizations who are striving to do their best.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Country, Home, Animal

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• The fundamental keys to the culture of any organization can only be achieved when everyone is on the same page.

  Tony Dungy

  Keys, Culture, Fundamentals

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.146, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

  Dan B. Allender

  Humility, Long, Lasts

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.185, WaterBrook

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• The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Thinking, Museums, Names

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• I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

  Vince Lombardi

  Loyalty, Teamwork, Player

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• Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.

  Jerry Junkins

  Leadership, Business, Responsibility

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• If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

  James C. Collins

  Running, Business, People

  "Good to Great". Fast Company Interview, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2001.

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• Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that - if you provide careers - that good things will happen to your company. I think we can say that that has been proved by the quality of people that we have and how they have built our organization.

  James Sinegal

  Jobs, Attitude, Business

  "Costco's Competitive Secret". The Motley Fool Interview, www.fool.com. June 14, 2006.

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• People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings, containing the whole of the evolving universe, limitless until we start limiting them. We must examine the concept of leading and following with new eyes. We must examine the concept of superior and subordinate with increasing skepticism. We must examine the concept of management and labor with new beliefs. And we must examine the nature of organizations that demand such distinctions with an entirely different consciousness.

  Dee Hock

  Eye, People, Different

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.73, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control.
  
  So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.

  Meg Whitman

  Running, Thinking, Command And Control

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• The ultimate compliment a customer can make to an organization about one of its marketing people is: "I'm not sure whether your sales rep works for me or for you."

  Buck Rodgers

  People, Marketing, Compliment

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• A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.

  Meg Whitman

  Inspiring, Leader, Focus

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• Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Character, Influence

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Way, Increase

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• The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Creativity, Responsibility

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• The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stupid, Boots, States

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• There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

  Seth Godin

  Acceptance, Ideas, Rejection

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• No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, People, Innovation

  Seth Godin (2004). “Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow”, p.52, Penguin

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• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Commitment, Issues

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• Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

  John P. Kotter

  Leader, Feelings, Historical

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• Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.

  Sunny Singh

  Thought Provoking, Marketing, Financial

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• Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Principles, Levels

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• I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Decision, Risk

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