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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

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

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

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

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

Clearly, for an organization to move on, it is the job of the leader to be that sponge that takes the stress from inside and the outside.