Kill the Company Quotes

“That's the problem with large organizations. They create roles and constraints, and sometimes people forget why they're there. (Quoting Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab)”
― Lisa Bodell, Kill the Company

“Once, several years ago, [GM] tried to stamp out bureaucracy--and ended up appointing a committee to oversee how many committee meetings should be held. (Quoting Sharon Terlep, The Wall Street Journal, "GM's Plodding Culture Vexes Its Impatient CEO," April 7, 2010)”
― Lisa Bodell, Kill the Company

“There is no reaction when a fresh idea is presented. What follows is a deluge of excuses for why the idea would not work. (From futurethink 2011 Corporate Culture Study participant, describing the experience of presenting new ideas)”
― Lisa Bodell, Kill the Company