Environmental niches are distinct in combination of resources and other constraints that are sufficient to support organizational form. Organizational forms, then, are organized activity systems oriented toward exploiting the resources within a niche.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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Most people define learning too narrowly as mere “problem-solving”, so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.
~ Chris Argyris
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Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning, yet most people don’t know how to learn.
~ Chris Argyris
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Ideologies capable of influencing and winning the acceptance of great masses of people are an indispensable verbal cement holding the fabric of any given type of society together.
~ James Burnham
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The Russian revolution was not a socialist revolution, but a managerial revolution. Today Russia is the nation which has, in its structural aspects, advanced furthest along the managerial road.
~ James Burnham
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