Organizational Design Quotes

“Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Vast organisations produce a sense of impotence in the individual, leading to a decay of effort. The danger can be averted if it is realised by administrators, but it is of a kind which most administrators are constitutionally incapable of realising. Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism, enough to prevent immobility leading to decay, but not enough to bring about disruption.”
― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“An organizational structure carries inherent capabilities as to what can be achieved within its frame.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight

“Ideally, the two structures - hierarchy, and relationship structure wrap around each other to ensure responsibility, to keep information flow and the creation of power.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight

“The creative work place is based on a triangle with three vertices - culture, method, and people.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight

“The most effective digital workplace is one where collaboration and sharing are the norms.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight

“Just implementing technology alone does not produce a digital transformation.
Changing an organization by taking advantage of the potential of technologies does.”
― Juan Pablo Rozas, La Transformación Digital No es Digital: La guía definitiva para navegar en un mar de tecnologías disruptivas y en los nuevos modelos de negocios digitales ... Estrategia Digital)

“Imagine an organization where the physical plant honors the mission, celebrates the employees, shares information, holds people accountable, shapes the outside world's view and helps drive performance. That would be an organization which uses visual management.”
― Stewart Liff

“An organization is on the road to success when change is part of its nature.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit

“It takes a pair of fresh eyes to see, but more importantly to perceive what’s missing in an organization.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit

“The purpose of organizational design is to improve the business maturity from functioning to firm to delight and ultimately, achieve the high-performance business result.”
― Pearl Zhu, 100 Digital Rules

“The more effortlessly you can align, integrate, and optimize the important business factors inside an organization, the closer you can accelerate performance and lead changes.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight

“The best people to help shape structure are those who are intimately involved with the results that structure produces.”
― Chris Hutchinson, Ripple: A Field Manual for Leadership that Works

“More is not always better. Better is better.”
― Chris Hutchinson, Ripple: A Field Manual for Leadership that Works

“A hyperconnected organization can approach the flow zone when the positions in its hierarchy have clear and accountable tasks.”
― Pearl Zhu, Quality Master

“Managers today must change from being supervisors of internal performance to being ‘curators of contribution’ from a distributed talent system.”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“Why was it sensible for Americans to transubstantiate a convention into the virtual embodiment of the People? After all, as with an ordinary legislative assembly, a convention assembly may improve the ultimate quality of public deliberation, see, e.g., THE FEDERALIST No. 55, at 342 (J. Madison), but only by excluding most citizens, thereby raising fiduciary/agency problems. An answer based on organization theory/incentive analysis might focus on how a ratification convention is structured differently from an ordinary legislature in ways that enhance monitoring and improve public accountability. First, the People select convention delegates in a special election. Second, delegates are generally convened to consider a single issue (ratification). Third and related, the basic choice set is binary (yes-no), reducing agenda manipulation problems and decreasing the monitoring problems that exist in an ordinary legislature with virtually infinite possibilities of side deals and vote trading. Fourth, conventions immediately disband and disperse among the People, reducing the problem of legislators entrenching themselves and developing their own institutional perspectives. Finally, a convention enhances a sense of public-spiritedness and individual moral responsibility among both voters and delegates. Calling a "convention" signals to all concerned that the polity is entering a high-stakes moment when basic ground rules will be hammered out. Interestingly, criminal juries (deciding the single issue of individual guilt or innocence) possess many more convention attributes than do ordinary legislatures.”
― Akhil Reed Amar, Of Sovereignty and Federalism

“Revenue is not a goal, its a natural outcome of great people working with passion towards a shared goal.”
― Jürgen Dauk, The Leadership Operating System: A Playbook for Aligning Teams, Accelerating Growth, and Dominating Markets