Quotes About Organization

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

My record-keeping hasnt improved much; I recently moved house and found five pots in the loft which had been unseen since the 80s and a dozen plates from the early 90s in a cupboard under a sink!

The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.

In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

Being on the road, I think, is the most organised part of my life. You know where you have to be every day; you know what your job is every day. I crave that tiny bit of stability, which anyone else would think is the most unstable way of living, ever.

Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too. Every key facet required for business success will fail when sleep becomes short within an organisation.

It's not unusual for my room to be stacked with newspapers gathered during a trip.

The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal.

In an organization that is unwilling to change, find the opportunity to talk and interact with people - figure out why they don't want to change. It could be habits. It could be people's personal equities and reputations are defined by the role they're in or the process they've mastered.

The Gmail app is definitely the app I use the most. I am always running from meeting to meeting, so it keeps me up-to-date with everything going on. I actually e-mail more often from my iPhone than my laptop, so having a nicely designed e-mail app is really important.

I start every day reviewing priorities, prepping for meetings, and getting updated on key projects.

As a team you have to figure out what you want to do and who do you want to pay and that comes from the guys upstairs.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.

For a single woman preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.

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.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons

The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.