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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
The organization would have... an ideology. The perceptive reader visitor would sense it immediately.

The Structuring of Organisations (1979)
It would be a great mistake to confine your imagination to the way things have always been done. In fact, it would consign you to the mediocrity of the marketplace.

Managing (1984)
The soul of a business is a curious alchemy of needs, desires, greed, and gratifications mixed together with selflessness, sacrifices, and personal contributions far beyond material rewards.

Managing (1984)
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationships of the men and women in the organization.

Managing (1984)
The kinds of people we employ are not afraid of taking risks. If someone mucks up, they don't get a bollocking from me. They know they've mucked up and they redouble their efforts.

Interview, ASAP (1997)
No one has ever accused us of lagging behind. In fact, I am willing to turn an entire company upside down if it's time to do that. We're in perpetual evolution.

Interview, ASAP (1997)
To hold people to the corporation, there has to be some kind of continuity and some sense of belonging... With the way corporations are evolving... unless we develop a more sophisticated model of the organization, the corporation will become just a box of contracts with no commitment on anyone's part.

Interview, Strategy + Business (1995)
Brains are becoming the core of organisations - other activities can be contracted out.

Interview (1994)
Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

The Empty Raincoat Making Sense of the Future (1994)
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