Quotes about Organization

(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.

But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.

there cannot be alignment deeper in the organization, even when employees want to cooperate, if the leaders at the top aren't in lockstep with one another

The most well-intentioned, well-designed departmental communication program will not tear down silos unless the people who created those silos want them torn down.

Becoming a healthy organization takes a little time. Unfortunately, many of the leaders I've worked with suffer from a chronic case of adrenaline addiction, seemingly hooked on the daily rush of activity and firefighting within their organizations. It's as though they're afraid to slow down and deal with issues that are critical but don't seem particularly urgent. As

company needs to be able to articulate exactly what it does, whom it serves, and against whom it competes. Why? Because all employees should be made to feel like salespeople or ambassadors for the firm, and they cannot do this without a fundamental understanding of an organization's business. More important, without this understanding, employees cannot connect their individual roles to the overall direction of the larger organization.

Second, and this is certainly related, those executives don't see the company's reason for existing as having any practical implications for the way they make decisions and run the organization.

Trust is just one of five behaviors that cohesive teams must establish to build a healthy organization.

The key to managing this challenge, of course, is to identify a reasonable number of issues that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of your organization, and then spend most of your time thinking about, talking about, and working on those issues.

I have found that most leaders spend the majority of their time and energy making their organizations smarter, with relatively little effort directed toward making them healthier.

an organization that has properly identified its values and adheres to them will naturally attract the right employees and repel the wrong ones.