Organizational Issues Quotes

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

Membership First's record is one of conflict, division and, ultimately, failure.

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

As a company grows, things get stuck at the top. It can be a bottleneck.

I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.

The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past.

I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

Baseball is a poorly run business.

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.

Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

The best … Committees consist of three persons, two of whom are always absent!

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

The problem with the NCAA - it's slow-moving.

U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.