Organizational Structure Quotes

• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Men, Organization

  "Hospital Turnarounds: Lessons in Leadership". Book by Terence F. Moore, p. 100, 1999.

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• To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

  Ricardo Semler

  Successful, Quality, Firsts

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• Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

  Gary Hamel

  Demand, Today, Too Much

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• Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Flow, Degrees

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 188, 1974.

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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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• Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.

  Max De Pree

  Organization, Knowing, People

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• 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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• We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Mistake, Information, Structure

  "Collected Papers: Toward a general social science" (1974) by Kenneth Boulding (p. 87), as quoted in "Environment, technology, and future generations" by D. A. Bella, 1978.

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• Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Running, What Matters

  "Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters". Book by Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson, 2006.

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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'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Play, Discipline

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• Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Party, Government, Organization

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• What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.

  Leonard Read

  Differences, Details, Individualism

  "Neither Left Nor Right". The Freeman Magazine, January, 1956.

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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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• In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Community, Movement

  Alan Hirsch, Tim Catchim (2012). “The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Police

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• It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.

  George Eldon Ladd

  Government, Age, Church

  George Eldon Ladd, Donald Alfred Hagner (1993). “A Theology of the New Testament”, p.579, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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