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

Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

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

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

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

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.