Quote by Karl Weick

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organizatio

Summary

This quote is a playful and unconventional description of an effective organization. It suggests that an organization's effectiveness is not necessarily rooted in efficiency and sleekness, but rather in its ability to adapt, communicate, embrace diversity, and navigate through various challenges. The use of words like garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy portrays an organization that is multifaceted, imperfect, and constantly evolving. The quote subverts traditional notions of an ideal organization, emphasizing the importance of resilience and embracing the complexities of the human experience within the organizational context.

Topics

Business

By Karl Weick

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between porn

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

Pornography

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought tha

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

Bradley Whitford

Christmas

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Alfred A. Montapert

Ideas

Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too

Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has rise

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Religion

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The rela

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Grover Cleveland

Intelligence

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

Tragedy

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theate

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

Movies

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Thought

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

Hope

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

Work