Quotes About Organization

Too many cooks spoil the broth, and half-a-dozen gentlemen aboard one ship are as bad as two kings of Brentford.

Bureaucracies excel at performing tasks that must be done consistently whether the people assigned to them are brilliant performers or bumbling fools. You can't always count on having Albert Einstein in the patent office, so you design its procedures to work even if you hire Mr. Bean by mistake.

There is good management and bad management: good management is like air—you don't know it's there until it's gone away.

Angleton is not to be trifled with. I don't know anyone else currently alive and in the organization who could get away with misappropriating the name of the CIA's legendary chief of counter-espionage as a nom de guerre. I don't know anyone else in the organization whose face is visible in circa-1942 photographs of the Laundry's line-up, either, barely changed across all those years.

I know just how devoted to this organisation you are. Draftees back in my day used to understand what they'd got themselves into, but you young ones . . ." 'Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you?' I raise an eyebrow at him. He

The iron law of bureaucracy dictates that most of the people in any large organization will, after a time, be more preoccupied with preserving their own jobs than with fulfilling the mission statement of the agency.

you've got to learn to think like a state if you work in the Civil Service. Organizations are not human beings and they don't obey the same priorities. They're hives.

Organizing from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Home, Your Office, and Your Life (Second Edition), by Julie Morgenstern—great advice from a top organizational consultant.

In the world of information science, the tricky question of where to put things is known as the "ontology problem.

I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

I never had any question about the direction we were going in at the Girl Scouts. We shared our mission and research with all levels of leaders from the very beginning - a concept I created, using cups and saucers, called 'circular management.' Everyone was on a team; there were no superiors or subordinates. There was respect for all people.

The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Having two kids is like having 1000. It's just scheduling, moving around, being mobile.

I have my family, which is my main thing; the organization; a modeling career. All these things are important, but family definitely comes first.

I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate.

The last thing I want to come home to on Monday night after work is a mess.

I spend a fair amount of time dealing with email, mostly deleting them or skimming them to get a sense of what is going on.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

I try to motivate and inspire people by showing them how much I love this sport and love this organization.

Sin importar cuánto deseemos organizar todo de manera racional, sin desperdicios, ni cuán apasionada y cuidadosamente deseemos colocar todos los ladrillos de la estructura económica, sin grietas en la argamasa, esto continúa escapando a nuestras posibilidades.

Institutions, no less than persons, may need to be socialized.

I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.