Paul R. Lawrence Quotes

Paul Roger Lawrence was an American sociologist, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School, and consultant, known from his work with Jay W. Lorsch on "Differentiation and integration in complex organizations." Wikipedia  

✵ 26. April 1922 – 1. November 2011
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“By differentiation we mean the differences in cognitive and emotional orientation among managers in different units and the differences in formal structure among units.”

Source: Organization and environment: Managing differentiation and integration, 1967, p. 11

“Orientation of members toward others [is] a cognitive and affective orientation toward the objects of work, which is manifested in a person's interpersonal style.”

Source: Organization and environment: Managing differentiation and integration, 1967, p. 7

Paul R. Lawrence Quotes

“Humans have evolved a leadership brain. Good leaders are people with a conscience who respect and reward all the four drives of other stakeholders [the drive to acquire, to defend, to bond, and to comprehend], even as they respect and reward their own drives.”

Paul R. Lawrence, quoted in: " The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-drive-to-acquires-impact-on-globalization," at hbswk.hbs.edu, 23 august 2010.

“[Integration is defined as] the process of achieving unity of effort among the various subsystems in the accomplishment of the organization's task.”

Variant: [Integration is defined as] the process of achieving unity of effort among the various subsystems in the accomplishment of the organization's task.
Source: Organization and environment: Managing differentiation and integration, 1967, p. 4

“Globalization need not work this way. Its benefits can be steered to all nations and to all levels in each nation in a more equitable manner. But a free-market, laissez-faire process will not do this automatically. It will require governmental regulatory action with guidelines and incentives that can best be established at the world level.”

Excerpt from: " The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-drive-to-acquires-impact-on-globalization," at hbswk.hbs.edu, 23 august 2010.
Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, 2010

“The quality of the state of collaboration that exist among organizations that is required to achieve unity of effort by the demands of the environment.”

Source: Organization and environment: Managing differentiation and integration, 1967, p. 11

“Other things being equal, differentiation and integration are essentially antagonistic, and that one can be obtained only at the expense of the other.”

Source: Organization and environment: Managing differentiation and integration, 1967, p. 48

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