“The most important thing about organizations is that, though they are tools, each nevertheless has a life of its own.”

Source: TVA and the grass roots : a study in the sociology of formal organization, 1949, p. 10

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American sociologist 1919–2010

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“The most important thing about organizations is that, though they are tools, each nevertheless has a life of its own.”

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