John Hoover - Organizational Quotes

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Hierarchical organizations are typically run by…little Napoleons and Napoleonettes; especially at mid-organization level.... A hierarchical organizational design draws leadership focus and energy away from problem solving and progressive thinking by encouraging those climbing the organizational food chain to focus instead on protecting their positions, perks, and territory.

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Organizational performance, productivity, and profitability depend more on the emotional investment people have in meeting organizational objectives than any other factor.

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What you want your people to carry in their hearts and minds are positive, pro-active intentions about your organizational mission and agenda. That way, they'll leave the useless, irrelevant, negative junk behind when they go home at night.

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People in intermediate organizational positions quickly learn how they can influence decisions at the top by filtering information as it makes its way up the ladder and back down again.

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The organizational money chart enables people to isolate because they can always point upward when someone asks, Who's in charge?... over time, the motivation to do well dwindles.

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Idiot Bosses are the mutant hiccups of organizational evolution with cockroach-like immunity to calamities that wipe out truly talented and creative people.

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If compensation is merely tied to the organizational money chart, the real contributions of many in the organization are not being recognized or rewarded. Such neglect kills enthusiasm and effort.

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Traditional organizational charts tend to institutionalize inefficiency, and misalignment of natural talents to job descriptions.

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The vast majority of your organization's leadership potential is probably locked up behind the bars of bureaucracy or staggering under the weight of organizational inertia.... The cultural dragon you're fighting feeds on old school notions about leadership that grew out of a Napoleonic, hierarchical military organizational model.

John Hoover