Interdepartmental Relations Quotes

When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.

The chances of catastrophe grow as organizations grow in number and size, and as internal communications become more time consuming and less intelligible.

The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government, as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

I mean just like the police don't tell me how to do the interviews, you know, we don't tell them how to do their business.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

I understand the relationships between the crew chiefs and the engineering or between fabrication and the body shop.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.