"Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process."

--

Source : Jeffrey Pfeffer (1998). “The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First”, p.16, Harvard Business Press

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#Successful Quotes #Organization Quotes #People Quotes

“I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.”
“Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.”
“You gotta try something people ain't seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a slam dunk competition, don't show up with three dunks. You got to have eight or nine dunks because if you get into the finals and two guys may do the same dunk or one guy does the dunk better than the other.”

Source : "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.
“If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?”
“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
“I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.”
“Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.”
“Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'”

You may also like:

Chris Argyris
Dave Ulrich
Author
Gary Hamel
Manager
Henry Mintzberg
Author
James G. March
Keith Ferrazzi
Author
Lawrence Summers
Former Undersecretary for International Affairs
Robert I. Sutton
Professor
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Professor