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quotes[0]='That government is best which governs least. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American writer</i>'

quotes[1]='Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Bertrand Russell 1872 - 1970, Brittish philosopher and writer</i>'

quotes[2]='Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1919, American writer and historian</i>'

quotes[3]='An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American essayist and poet</i>'

quotes[4]='Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It’s always come from individuals. <p &nbsp;</p><i>John Scully, Chairman, Apple Computers</i>'

quotes[5]='Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Abraham Maslow 1908-1970, American humanistic psychologist and originator of the Hierarchy of Needs</i>'

quotes[6]='Always change processes and structures while they still function. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Unknown</i>'

quotes[7]='Business is like a car: it will not run by itself except downhill. <p &nbsp;</p><i>American saying</i>'

quotes[8]='Nothing is illegal if one hundred well-placed businessmen decide to do it. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Andrew Young 1932-, American diplomat</i>'

quotes[9]='Reengineering must be fundamental, radical and drastic. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Michael Hammer & James Champy 1993, American management consultants</i>'

quotes[10]='It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Machiavelli 1446-1507, Italian statesman and philosopher</i>'

quotes[11]='The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. <p &nbsp;</p><i>George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish playwright and critic</i>'

quotes[12]='Management that wants to change an institution must first show it loves that institution. <p &nbsp;</p><i>John Tusa 1936-, British radio journalist</i>'

quotes[13]='If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Giuseppe di Lampedusa 1896-1957, Italian writer in The Leopard</i>'

quotes[14]='Guidelines for bureaucrats: 1. When in charge, ponder. 2. When in trouble, delegate. 3. When in doubt, mumble. <p &nbsp;</p><i>James H. Boren 1925-, American bureaucrat</i>'

quotes[15]='Progress is only possible if we reverse the industrial revolution. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Michael Hammer, American business thinker on business process reengineering</i>'

quotes[16]='Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. <p &nbsp;</p><i>J.G. Pollard </i>'

quotes[17]='Two dangers never cease threatening the world: order and disorder. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Paul Valery 1871-1945, French poet and author in Crisis of the Mind </i>'

quotes[18]='The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Gay Talese 1932-, American (Italian-born) journalist </i>'

quotes[19]='Managing is like holding a dove in your hands. Hold it too tightly and you kill it, but hold it too loosely and it flies away. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Tommy Lasorda, American baseball coach </i>'

quotes[20]='No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American management guru </i>'

quotes[21]='In psychology ... we have wholes which, instead of being the sum of parts existing independently, give their parts specific functions or properties that can only be defined in relation to the whole in question. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Wolfgang Köhler, German Gestalt psychologist</i>'

quotes[22]='An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Stephen R. Covey, American management guru </i>'

quotes[23]='We shape our environments, then our environments shape us. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British statesman and writer </i>'

quotes[24]='The principles of office hierarchy and of levels of graded authority mean a firmly ordered system of super- and subordination in which there is a supervision of the lower levels by the higher ones. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Max Weber 1864-1920, brilliant German analytical sociologist studying bureaucratic organizations </i>'

quotes[25]='From the earliest times it has been recognized that nothing but confusion arises under multiple command. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Luther Gulick in Notes on the Theory of Organization </i>'

quotes[26]='The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Chester Barnard in The Functions of the Executive (1938) </i>'

quotes[27]='A formal, rationally organized social structure involves clearly defined patterns of activity in which, ideally, every series of actions is functionally related to the purposes of the organization. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Robert K. Merton, sociologist, in Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (1940) </i>'

quotes[28]='Organization may be viewed from two standpoints which are analytically distinct but which are empirically united in a context of reciprocal consequences. On the one hand, any concrete organizational system is an economy; at the same time, it is an adaptive social structure. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Philip Selznick, sociologist, in Foundations of the Theory of Organization (1948) </i>'

quotes[29]='To some men the matter of giving orders seems a very simple affair: they expect to issue their own orders and have them obeyed without question. (...) Psychology, as well as our own observation, shows us not only that you cannot get people to do things most satisfactorily by ordering them or exhorting them; but also that even reasoning with them, even convincing them intellectually, may not be enough. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Mary Parker Follett, psychologist, in The Giving of Orders (1926) </i>'

quotes[30]='The ingenuity and the perseverance of industrial management in the pursuit of economic ends have changed many scientific and technological dreams into commonplace realities. It is now becoming clear that the application of these same talents to the human side of enterprise will not only enhance substantially these materialistic achievements, but will bring us one step closer to `the good society`. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Douglas Murray McGregor, psychologist, in The Human Side of the Enterprise (1957) </i>'

quotes[31]='The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Irving L. Janis, behavioral scientist, in Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost (1971) </i>'

quotes[32]='A mechanistic management system is appropriate to stable conditions. (...) The organic form is appropriate to changing conditions, which give rise constantly to fresh problems and unforseen requirements for action which cannot be broken down or distributed automatically arising from the functional roles defined within a hierarchic structure. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Tom Burns and G.M. Stalker, sociologists, in The Management of Innovation (1961) </i>'

quotes[33]='In every formal organization there arise informal organizations. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Peter M. Blau and W. Richard Scott in Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach (1962) </i>'

quotes[34]='It is impossible to understand the nature of a formal organization without investigating the networks of informal relations and the unofficial norms as well as the formal hierarchy of authority and the official body of rules, since the formally instituted and the informally emerging patterns are inextricably intertwined. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Peter M. Blau and W. Richard Scott in Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach (1962) </i>'

quotes[35]='35 years of research have convinced me that managerial hierarchy is the most efficient, the hardiest, and in fact the most natural structure ever devised for large organizations. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Elliott Jacques, in In Praise of Hierarchy, in Harvard Business Review (Jan-Feb 1990) </i>'

quotes[36]='Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn in The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966) </i>'

quotes[37]='It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn in The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966) </i>'

quotes[38]='The fact that organizations have built-in protective devices to maintain stability and that they are notoriously difficult to change in the direction of some reformer`s desires should not obscure the realities of the dynamic interrelationships of any social structure with its social and natural environment. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn in The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966) </i>'

quotes[39]='We not only need complex, organic views of organizations, but we would benefit from not being put off by either the complexity or its mysteries. <p &nbsp;</p><i>J. Ralls and K. Webb in The Nature of Chaos in Business, 1999 </i>'

quotes[40]='Meetings are indispensable when you don`t want to do anything. <p &nbsp;</p><i>John Kenneth Galbraith </i>'

quotes[41]='We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn`t obey the rules. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Alan Bennett </i>'

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