Quotes About Organization

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from hell.

El Chayo, El Chango y La Tuta diseñan con singular astucia su separación de Los Zetas. A mediados de 2006 formalizan el nacimiento de una nueva organización llamada La Familia Michoacana, cuyo objetivo es expulsar a Los Zetas de la Tierra Caliente.

these ideological cliques form in a government--or any other organization. Subordinates are always chosen for their agreement with the views of their superiors, and the extremists always get to the top and shove the moderates under or out.

It takes an awful lot of people, working together at an awful lot of jobs, to keep a civilization running.

In private, with pencil on scratch paper, he labored over aphorisms that he later delivered in spontaneous-seeming lectures: Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Several chaos-minded cardiologists found that the frequency spectrum of heartbeat timing, like earthquakes and economic phenomena, followed fractal laws, and they argued that one key to understanding heartbeat timing was the fractal organization of the His-Purkinje network, a labyrinth of branching pathways organized to be self-similar on smaller and smaller scales.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

The demon replaces chance with purpose. It uses information to reduce entropy.

Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.

The alphabet, however, had a definite order—the first and second letters providing its very name—and

Farmer said, On a philosophical level, it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can't say what it's going to do next. At the same time, I'd always felt that the important problems out there in the world had to do with the creation of organization, in life or intelligence. But how did you study that?

Stop for a moment... "You don't need more time. You need to use the time you already have differently.

Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains.

Wonderful organisation certainly, goes like clockwork.

It's been said that only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance; everything else requires leadership.1

The leader who has the most influence over your desire to stay or leave, your commitment to the organization's vision and values, your ethical decisions and actions, your treatment of customers, your ability to do your job well, and the direction of your career, to name but a few outcomes, is your most immediate manager.

a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans

you plan to fail if you fail to plan

The point wasn't to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise

The captain was almost as tall as me. He wore his dark hair slicked tightly against his scalp. There were definite cliques inside the NYPD. Divisions happen in all large organizations. The simple old Irish-versus-Italian rivalry had given way to a much more complicated system. Ramirez identified strongly with the Hispanic clique and didn't give a crap if I was Irish, Italian, or black. I wasn't Hispanic so he didn't cut me any slack.

the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

Do you guys understand anything about best practices? I know you laugh at me because I follow procedures on everything, but those procedures were created for a reason.

Unfortunately, as you hire more people, the casual, informal 'do what it takes' culture, which worked so well at less than 40 people, becomes chaotic and less effective.