The Impact of System And Structure on Performance Potential by Jim Clemmer

The Impact of System And Structure on Performance Potential by Jim Clemmer

"Structure is a very powerful shaper of behavior. It's like the strange pumpkin I once saw at a country fair.

It had been grown in a four-cornered Mason jar. The jar had since been broken and removed. The remaining pumpkin was shaped exactly like a small Mason jar. Beside it was a pumpkin from the same batch of seeds that was allowed to grow without constraints. It was five times bigger.

Organization structures and systems have the same effect on the people in them. They either limit or liberate their performance potential." -- Jim Clemmer from Pathway to Performance