The art of the creative leader is the art of institution building, the reworking of human and technological materials to fashion an organism that emb… - Philip Selznick

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.

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

Organisations are technical instruments; designed as means to definite goals... they are expendable. Institutions... may be partly engineered, but they have also a “natural” dimension. They are the products of interaction and adaptation; they become the receptacles of group idealism; they are less readily expendable.