The term “leadership” connotes critical experience rather than routine practice. - Philip Selznick

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

The action of the officials tends to have an increasingly internal relevance , which may result in the deflection of the organization from its original path, which, however, usually remains as the formally professed aim of the organization.

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