Quotes About Organization

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

Plan your work and work your plan.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.