Sublime

Much of the pervasive fear that runs silently through organizations—and much of the politics, the silos, the greed, blaming, and resentment that feed on fear—stem from the unequal distribution of power.

Modern global corporations are the embodiment of Orange Organizations.

The one-firm firm, relative to its competitors, places great emphasis on its institutional history, broadly held values, and a reputation that all actively work to preserve.

always the same: discovering the critical factors in a situation and designing a way of coordinating and focusing actions to deal with those factors.

What we remove is as important as what we add. It isn't just the ideas that get the work done.

professional services involve a high degree of customization in their work. Professional firms must manage customized activities where little, even management information, can be reliably made routine. Management principles and approaches from the industrial or mass-consumer sectors, based as they are on the standardization, supervision, and

Peter Drucker.

When there was a serious lack of clarity about what the team stood for and what their goals and roles were, people experienced confusion, stress, frustration, and ultimately failure.