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Leadership is the form that authority assumes when it enters into process. As such it constitutes the determining principle of the entire scalar process, existing not only at the source, but projecting itself through its own action throughout the entire chain, until, through functional definition, it effectuates the formal coordination of the entire structure.

— James D. Mooney

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Organization is as old as human society itself.

p. xiii. Cited in: Morgen Witzel (2003)

Organization is the form of every human association for the attainment of a common purpose.

The supreme coordinating authority must rest somewhere and in some form in every organization, else there could be no such thing as organized.

Failure to delegate causes managers to be crushed and fail under the weight of accumulated duties that they do not know and have not learned to delegate.

James D. Mooney (1931)

No advance in human knowledge will ever exclude the leader's need for the counsel of elemental human wisdom, and especially of collective wisdom, in the making of all important decisions.

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