"Morale in an organization does not mean..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.
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“The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.”
“I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.”
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
More on Organizations
“The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"”
“The organization is, above all, social. It is people.”
“...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.”
More on Performance
“When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.”
“People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.”
“I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?”