Ours has become, for better and for worse, a society of organizations. We are born in organizations and are educated in organizations so that we can later work in organizations. At the same time, organizations supply us and entertain us, they govern us and harass us (sometimes concurrently). Finally, we are buried by organizations. Yet aside from a small group of scholars called "organization theorists" who study them, and those managers inclined to look deeply into the subject of their management, few people really understand these strange collective beasts that so influence our daily lives.
- From Mintzberg on Management by Henry Mintzberg
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