Corporate Dysfunction Quotes

I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings.

A lot of the dysfunction that exists underneath the surface of a lot of big business corporations is really profound.

From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them.

I could only be frustrated right from the day I started in WCW and realized that it was a company run by a bunch of idiots that didn't have a clue what they were doing.

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'