As critical as organizations are to people's success, rarely have organizations been consciously designed to handle today's multiplicity of paradoxical objectives, and to maintain excellence in the face of rapidly changing business needs and advancing technologies. Organizational health is so critical that it warrants a special position within an executive's change strategy. Any executive who wishes to improve people's performance should address organizational issues first. It may be a corporation or a company, a government agency, a family working on their farm, a volunteer association, or a union. An organization is different from a project team.
Organizations are permanent, or at least intended to survive beyond a single project.
A project team, on the other hand, is a temporary association of people who belong to different parts of an organization and agree to work together to achieve a specific deliverable. The project team disbands at the end of the project, while its members continue to work for their respective organizations. Organizations exist within organizations. The scope of the organization is a matter of perspective. If you are the C.E.O. of a multinational corporation, your scope may include numerous autonomous companies as well as corporate staff functions.