quotations about organization
People do not exist just for organizations. They track all kinds of mud from the rest of their lives into the organization.
CHARLES PERROW
Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get into a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
CHARLES E. SORENSEN
My Forty Years with Ford
An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.
SCOTT BELSKY
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
The Internet is the technological basis for the organizational form of the Information Age: the network.
MANUEL CASTELLS
The Internet Galaxy
Organization is the arrangement of personnel for facilitating the accomplishment of some agreed purpose through the allocation of functions and responsibilities.
JOHN M. GAUS
"A theory of organization in public administration", The Frontiers of Public Administration
We are organizational creatures. We are born not only into a society and culture but usually into a specific, complex organization: a family. Our marriages are organizations. We study in schools that are organizations; we earn a living in businesses that are organizations; at some time or another we will likely worship in an organization; and when we die there will be organizations to usher us out of this world.
M. SCOTT PECK
"Something is Seriously Wrong", A World Waiting to Be Born
Organizations are not collectivities formed simply by the individual, intentional action of their founders and members. Rather, organizations always occur in the context of pre-existing (organizational) social relations. The search for any tabula rasa is in vain.
JEFF HEARN & WENDY PARKIN
Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations
Organizations are evolving like complex adaptive systems with unpredictable patterns of interaction, requiring a new approach to strategy, organizational behavior, and leadership.
DANIEL A. NOVAK
Leadership of Organizational Networks
An organization comes into being when (1) there are persons able to communicate with each other (2) who are willing to contribute action (3) to accomplish a common purpose. The elements of an organization are therefore (1) communication; (2) willingness to serve; and (3) common purpose. These elements are necessary and sufficient conditions initially, and they are found in all such organizations. The third element, purpose, is implicit in the definition. Willingness to serve, and communication, and the interdependence of the three elements in general, and their mutual dependence in specific cooperative systems, are matters of experience and observation.
CHESTER BARNARD
The Functions of the Executive
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
The Sirens of Titan
Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.
SUN TZU
The Art of War
My organization lacked something -- like, say, organization.
RICHELLE MEAD
Succubus Dreams
Communication is the lifeblood of an organization.
ASA DON BROWN
Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace
General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Jerusalem
Organizations are for weak men, who are nothing individually, but collectively of some importance; strong men have less need of them, except to rule or use them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- need not be signs of an impending disorder that will destroy us. Instead, fluctuations are the primary source of creativity.
MARGARET WHEATLEY
Leadership and the New Science
Formal organizations typically have a hierarchic and bureaucratic internal structure. Leaders and followers are clearly marked.
JOHN WARKENTIN
Canada: Geographical Interpretations
Organizations are always, first and foremost, tools of and for power.
STEWART R. CLEGG
Strategy: Theory and Practice
Because the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.
CLAY SHIRKY
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Organization aims to unite individuals into a body which shall work together for a common end. Specifically, organization prepares for the transaction of business by electing and appointing officers and committees, delegating authorities and bringing into systematic connection and cooperation, each and every part of the industrial body. Right organization, in short, puts vitality into the entire factory, secures the efficient working-together of all employees, from the manager's office to the mechanic's bench, routes materials, sub-divides work, inspects output and delivers the right goods, fully processed, at the shipping room door on the correct delivery date.
CLINTON E. WOODS
"Charting authorities in the industrial body", Industrial Organization