Quotes About Organization

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

If you want to save time, invest in a team.

Proper research into organization of interest is a step to getting there.

Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.

Delivering a project isn't difficult. What's difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly

It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.

Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

Clean and restock your car at the end of each trip. No matter how tired you are, resist the temptation to let that empty muffin bag wait until mañana. Tomorrow turns into next week, next month.

The secret of Washington's ability to accomplish so much was his mastery of time management. Consider his statements on time. "What to me is more valuable, my time, that I most regard," he wrote to James McHenry, September 14, 1799. Similarly, he wrote to James Anderson on December 10, 1799, "… time, which is of more importance than is generally imagined.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

If there is any one "secret" of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

Every enterprise requires commitment to common goals and shared values. Without such commitment there is no enterprise; there is only a mob. The enterprise must have simple, clear, and unifying objectives. The mission of the organization has to be clear enough and big enough to provide common vision. The goals that embody it have to be clear, public, and constantly reaffirmed. Management's first job is to think through, set, and exemplify those objectives, values, and goals. Management

plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

Is this still worth doing?" And if it isn't, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.