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Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.
There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.
What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett.
"My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.
It is not the absence of hierarchy or the uniformity of decision-making authority that makes an organization fluid. It is the ability to shift and morph those things in the service of accomplishing more.
People don't trust conglomerates; they trust individuals. Network marketing brings trust and the quality of the relationship to the center of the business. And it enables you to expand indefinitely, simply by expanding the number of relationships.
Companies aren't families. They're battlefields in a civil war.
Once sufficient concentration and merging have taken place, the winners hope to be free to establish a more orderly form of competition between themselves, one where they create differential advantages for their stores, so that 'their shoppers' no longer see one store as substitutable for any other.
While all important enterprises need careful organization, it is the organization that needs organizing, rather than the enterprise.
When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.
Organization is the Devil's work.
My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel
towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends. - source
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
A company is known by the people it keeps.
Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.
Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps
You can't divide a business like a sack of apples.
Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
Brands grow faster and stronger with the help of Brand Advocates, Influencers & Tribes
Divide and Conquer.
Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.
In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.
I am an organization freak!
A "grouplet" - a small, self-organized team that has almost no budget and even less authority, but that tries to change something within the company.
If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.
Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts may be growing rapidly, others may be stagnating, others may be in steep decline.
A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.
How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.
Little, Brown and Company
Industries, unlike organisms, have no organic limits on their own growth; they are constantly in search of new markets, or of new ways to exploit old ones more effectively; as Karl Marx unsympathetically observed, they 'nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.
Diversification is your buddy.
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.
Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.
All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured, it is a mob. Mobs do not get things done, they destroy things.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
All these companies that grew to any sizable proportions were all founded with a belief or a cause bigger than their products or services. It was their products or services that helped them bring that cause to life.
Individuals don't build great companies, teams do.
Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.
In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.
Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources
Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.
There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.
Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.
Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.
A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.
Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.
I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.
Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.
The most successful companies make the core progression - to first dominate a specific niche and then scale to adjacent markets - a part of their founding narrative.
It's harder than ever to build an enduring company. As soon as a product strikes a nerve with customers, competitors emerge globally because the costs to start are so low.
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.
[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.
New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.
Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies
History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.
THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
I'm building a large company.
You don't know it, but I'm a vertical megabrand with cross-media platforms
People must work together for a company to thrive.
Organisation - key to success.
There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.
The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.
The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.
The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
split asunder.
A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph
Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?
I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears.
Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.
Be an aggregator, not an aggravator.
In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.
The journey of life is the unification of fragmentation. Fragments are units of power that are out of control. We make agreements to come and collect ourselves.
There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.
ARTICLE THAT SAID in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption.
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.