Rich Eisen Quotes

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured, it is a mob. Mobs do not get things done, they destroy things.

The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.

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

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

Delegation of authority is a fact of modern life.

Every executive function, whether superior or subordinate, should be the appointed duty of some given individual. It should be apparent to all the world who did everything, and through whose default anything was left undone. Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible. Nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.

You can call anyyne here or call me. We have no formal chain of command.