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The point of becoming a change agent is that it changes the mindset of the entire organization. Instead of seeing change as a threat, its people will come to consider it as an opportunity.
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061 |
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…there is no such thing as the one right organization. There are only organizations, each of which has distinct strengths, distinct limitations, and specific applications.
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068 |
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Organization is not an absolute. It is a tool for making people productive in working together.
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068 |
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‘Hierarchy,’ and the unquestioning acceptance of it by everyone in the organization, is the only hope in a crisis.
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068 |
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One [principle of organization] is surely that organization has to be transparent. People have to know and have to understand the organization structure they are supposed to work in.
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069 |
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It is a sound principle that one person in an organization should have only one ‘master.’
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069 |
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It is a sound structural principle to have the fewest layers, that is, to have an organization that is as flat as possible.
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069 |
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Instead of searching for the right organization, management needs to learn to look for, to develop, to test: The organization that fits the task.
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070 |
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…that they know more about their job than anybody else in the organization is part of the definition of knowledge workers.
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071 |
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…what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of business no longer works.
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086 |
