Quotes About Organization

You will be able to reach your potential and help your organization reach its loftiest goals only if you begin developing leaders instead of merely attracting followers. Leaders who develop leaders experience an incredible multiplication effect in their organizations that can be achieved in no other way.

PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST TODAY AND NEGLECT THINGS THAT DON'T REALLY MATTER.

How do I identify the top 20 percent influencers/producers in my organization?" I suggest that you make a list of everyone in your company or department. Then ask yourself this question about each individual: "If this person takes a negative action against me or withdraws his or her support from me, what will the impact likely be?" If

When I agreed to call him about lunch he gave me his telephone number at the shipyard, his extension there, the telephone number of his apartment, the telephone number of a cottage he had in Connecticut, and the telephone number of the club where he lunched and played cards. I wrote all these numbers on a piece of paper and when we said goodbye I dropped the paper into a wastebasket.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

Grid systems in graphic design

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.