Quotes About Organization

The secret, of course, to any list is to keep it in a place where you're bound to see it.

In the midst of the declining governing capacity of the American democratic order, we ought to focus less on 'participation' as the magical solution and more on the real dynamics of how to facilitate the organization of effective political power.

I work for the Spandler Corporation. We are a three-hundred-million-dollar business, with offices in twelve states. We have over five hundred employees. We are known throughout the country as a leader in the industry. Our customers rely heavily on us. We produce nothing. We sell nothing. We buy nothing. If we didn't exist, Kafka would have to invent us.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

Orden en el horario. Esta es la base.

El ensayo es un teatro de la inteligencia donde una mente organizada y lúcida utiliza recursos pedagógicos para hacer reflexionar al lector común y llevarlo de la mano hasta una conclusión que perdería poder persuasivo si fuera presentada de manera abrupta.

His organizational and administrative talents in a criminal activity were accompanied by an astonishing 'inability to think'.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours.

Solitary confinement is one of the punishments most dreaded even by prisoners hardened to physical brutality, and is now a notorious procedure for inducing political compliance. (Conversely, the best of the known weapons against compliance is social organization.)

There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent.

The evolutionary economist Richard Nelson of Columbia University has pointed out that there are in fact two types of technology that play a major role in economic growth. The first is Physical Technology; this is what we are accustomed to thinking of as technology, things such as bronze-making techniques, steam engines, and microchips. Social Technologies, on the other hand, are ways for organizing people to do things.

Hierarchies are critical in enabling networks to reach larger sizes before diseconomies of scale set in. This is why so many networks in the natural and computer worlds are structured as networks within networks.

One study calculated that people spend 3,680 hours in their lifetime looking for lost items, which works out to 150 twenty-four-hour days.

entrepreneurship should be considered a viable career path for innovators inside large organizations.

There is a reason all past management revolutions have been led by engineers: management is human systems engineering.

A transformação contínua – a capacidade de uma organização para testar e aprender com experiências relacionadas à sua própria estrutura e a seus processos, promovendo, por toda a empresa, as melhores técnicas comprovadas, limitando ou descartando o resto – é o que dará a essa organização a capacidade de prosperar na era moderna.

A cultura é memória muscular institucional, que não se baseia em como a organização aspira a atuar, mas em como realmente atuou no passado.

Why does stuffing one envelope at a time get the job done faster even though it seems like it would be slower? Because our intuition doesn't take into account the extra time required to sort, stack, and move around the large piles of half-complete envelopes when it's done the other way.

Although lean production techniques are powerful, they are only a manifestation of a high-functioning organization that is committed to achieving maximum performance by employing the right measures of progress over the long term. Process is only the foundation upon which a great company culture can develop. But without this foundation, efforts to encourage learning, creativity, and innovation will fall flat—as many disillusioned directors of HR can attest.

Here's how to use Five Whys analysis to build an adaptive organization: consistently make a proportional investment at each of the five levels of the hierarchy. In other words, the investment should be smaller when the symptom is minor and larger when the symptom is more painful.

Each employee could log in to the system at any time, choose from a list of all current and past experiments, and see a simple one-page summary of the results. Over time, those one-page summaries became the de facto standard for settling product arguments throughout the organization.

Building an adaptive organization, in other words, requires executive leadership to sponsor and support the process.

Entrepreneurship is a kind of management. No, you didn't read that wrong.

Principle five behind the Startup Way philosophy is continuous transformation: All of this requires the development of a new organizational capability: the ability to rewrite the organization's DNA in response to new and diverse challenges. It would be a shame to transform only once. When a company has figured out how to transform, it can - and should - be prepared to do it many more times in the future.