“Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.”

— Chester Barnard, book The Functions of the Executive

Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 282

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