Organizational Performance Quotes

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

Culture drives great results.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.

Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management.

All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don' t need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

When a culture is broken, the cracks show - morale is weakened, but so is profit and performance. That's why culture has to be at the core of any business transformation.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

Culture used to be viewed as the 'touchy-feely' side of business, but that's no longer the case. If you don't have a defined culture behind you, then you aren't going to be effective at executing your strategy.

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.

Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.

Your employees have lots of opinions about everything - your strategy and vision; the state of the competition; the quality of your products; the vibe in the workplace. There are tons of things you can learn from them.