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Instead of giving contracts to strangers, we decided we could just as well give contracts to our own employees. We would encourage them to leave... and start their own satellite enterprises.
Harvard Business Review (1994)
We use minimal hierarchies, ad hoc structures, self-control, and the discipline of our own community marketplace of jobs and responsibilities to achieve high quality, on-time performance.
Harvard Business Review (1994)
The pyramid, the chief organizational principle of the modern organization, turns a business into a traffic jam.
Maverick! (1993)
I try to create an environment in which others make decisions. Success means not making them myself.
Maverick! (1993)
The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.
Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.
Maverick! (1993)
What is important is our openmindedness, our trust in our employees and distrust of dogma. We are neither socialist nor purely capitalist, but we take the best of these failed systems and others to reorganize work.
Maverick! (1993)
Get to know your people. What they do well, what they enjoy doing, what their weaknesses and strengths are, and what they want and need to get from their job.
Further Up the Organization (1984)
It is possible for a business venture to be an island of efficiency in a sea of sloth.
Speech (1967)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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