Managers Tend To Treat Organizations As If They Are Infinitely Plastic. They Hire And Fire, Merge, Downsize, Terminate Programs, Add Capacities. But There Are Limits To The Shifts That Organizations Can Absorb. - SearchQuotes

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Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

Kevin Kelly

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