Organizational Survival Quotes

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

Strong organizations with strong risk controls will survive and prosper.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, often under great time pressure, leaders must make decisions and take effective actions to assure the survival and success of their organizations. This is how leaders add value to their organizations. They lead them to success by exercising good judgment, by making smart calls when especially difficult and complicated decisions simply must be made, and then ensuring that they are well executed.

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

If an institution has not made it after 10 years, it shouldn't be around anymore.

There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever.

In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.