Quotes About Organization

Have the right people in the right places, working together

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

If your team members can run a home, raise a family, and organize their lives, they are fully equipped to run a multimillion-dollar business.

tidy up before leaving for the day. When

The key to success is the plan your work and work your plan.

beginning it was a well-planned pyramid

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.

If I should be engaged, I will at least make notes.

A movement exists to create change while a party strives to govern.

In its 2010 report, the organization showed Russia as more corrupt than 86 percent of the world:

As I mentioned earlier, the diagnostic feature of life is that it captures energy to create order.

The great success of ants and termites – between them they may comprise one-third of all the animal biomass of land animals – is undoubtedly down to their division of labour.

because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, is that it is a totally decentralised process...no cell need wait for instructions from authority; every cell can act on its own information and the signals it receives from its neighbours. We do not organise societies that way...Perhaps we should try.

what really works inside a big firm is division of labour: you do what you're good at, I'll do what I'm good at, and we'll coordinate our actions. That is what actually happens in practice inside most companies, and good management means good coordination. The employees specialise and exchange, just like participants in a market, or citizens in a city.

Free-market commerce is the only system of human organisation yet devised where ordinary people are in charge – unlike feudalism, communism, fascism, slavery and socialism.

In order to be as effective as possible, we need to consciously design our teams rather than merely allow them to form accidentally or haphazardly.

building and running software systems is a sociotechnical activity, not an assembly line in a factory.

If the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organization are at odds, the architecture of the organization wins.

We like to think that Team Topologies is another piece of this puzzle—in particular, having clear and fluid team structures, responsibilities, and interaction modes.

Requiring everyone to communicate with everyone else is a recipe for a mess.

She stood back and examined the overall effect, then tweaked until the arrangement was just right. Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.