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If only one didn’t know that at the secret heart of all such organizations,
corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a finite number of
fallible people talking to each other….

—Lois McMaster Bujold, author (from her book Cryoburn, 2010) In large organizations the dilution
of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can
undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist and author (from his book Good Business: Leadership,
Flow, and the Making of Meaning, 2003)

The fact that the United States has political, economic, and legal structures that
do indeed create incentives to control hazards (in the workplace) is one of the
reasons the corporations have moved to Latin America and Asia.

—Vincent A. Gallagher, author and safety expert (from his book The True Cost of Low Prices: The
Violence of Globalization, 2006)

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods
have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of
those changes is transformation.

—Andrew Grove, chairman of Intel (from interview with Esquire magazine, January 29, 2007) It’s
not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and
“compacting” things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few
management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don’t
believe in having big corporate infrastructures.

—Carlos Slim Helu, billionaire Mexican industrialist (from BusinessWeek magazine, February 21,
2000)

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to
mediocrity.

—Bruce Henderson, founder of the Boston Consulting Group