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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity: you absolutely depend on people speaking up and raising concerns.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.