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

It has been well said that the effective leader must know the meaning and master the techniques of the educator.

The art of the creative leader is the art of institution building, the reworking of human and technological materials to fashion an organism that embodies new and enduring values.

Trade unions, governments, business corporations, political parties, and the like are formal structures in the sense that they represent rationally ordered instruments for the achievement of stated goals.