Marvin Bower Quotes

• Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

  Marvin Bower

  Philosophy, Organization, Achievement

  MARVIN BOWER (1966). “THE WILL TO MANAGE CORPORATE THROUGH PROGRAMMED MANAGEMENT”

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• There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

  Marvin Bower

  Business, Ethics, Kind

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• If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

  Marvin Bower

  Pain, Principles, Live By

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• A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

  Marvin Bower

  Effectiveness, People, Principles

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

  Marvin Bower

  Skills, People, Personality

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance of the status quo, a potential threat to peoples vested interests in their jobs, and an upset to established ways of doing things. For these reasons, needed reorganization is often deferred. With a resulting loss in effectiveness and increase in costs.

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  Change, Jobs, Mean

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• I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.

  Marvin Bower

  Running, Team, Believe

  "The Will to Manage: Corporate Success Through Programmed Management" by Marvin Bower, New York: McGraw-Hill, (p. 7), 1966.

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• The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

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  Differences, People, Negative

  Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.34, Harvard Business Press

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• Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.

  Marvin Bower

  Genuine Concern, Ideas, People

  Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.131, Harvard Business Press

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• A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

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  People, Principles, Boots

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

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  Decision, Facts, Should

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

  Marvin Bower

  Decision, Facts, Should

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• The course of business shapes public opinion.

  Marvin Bower

  Public Opinion, Shapes, Opinion

  "The development of executive leadership", by Marvin Bower, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration. (p. v), 1949.

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