"Running an organisation... generates problems, which have no necessary (and often an opposed) relationship to the pro…"

"Organisations are technical instruments; designed as means to definite goals... they are expendable. Institutions... …"

"Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life."

"There seems to be little doubt that the factor of sheer size is a very important element in concrete bureaucratic str…"

"The action of the officials tends to have an increasingly internal relevance , which may result in the deflection of …"

"Trade unions, governments, business corporations, political parties, and the like are formal structures in the sense …"

"[Formal structures of formal organizations] never succeed in conquering the non-rational dimensions of organizational…"

"The formal administrative design can never adequately or fully reflect the concrete organization to which it refers, …"

"The most important thing about organizations is that, though they are tools, each nevertheless has a life of its own."

"Cooptation is the process of absorbing new elements into the leadership or policy- determining structure of an organi…"