Quotes About Organization

Whether our lives are magnificent or wretched depends upon our ordering of daily details. We must organize the details into a composition that pleases

Like a rich person, I live with a full-time servant who keeps everything in order—and because the servant is me, there's no invasion of privacy.

The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the summer and lock it in a cupboard. Then order every scrap of food from a shop the week before Christmas and sit back and enjoy watching everyone else go mad. I've been meaning to do it for years.

planners hauled out their

enumeró las características fundamentales de las organizaciones burocráticas: puestos de trabajo específicos, con derechos, obligaciones, responsabilidades y límites a su autoridad, detallados y bien conocidos, así como un sistema claro de supervisión, subordinación y unidad de mando. Estas

As the historian William McNeill observed, "Innumerable bureaucratic structures that had previously acted more or less independently of one another in a context of market relationships coalesced into what amounted to a single national firm for waging war"—a process that played out in every combatant nation.18

opinaba Weber, la clave para ejercer el poder en la sociedad moderna era la organización burocrática.

sin una organización fiable y competente, o —por usar sus términos— sin una burocracia, era imposible ejercer verdaderamente el poder.

el poder estructura la sociedad, contribuye a regir las relaciones y a organizar las interacciones entre las personas dentro de cada comunidad y entre las comunidades y naciones.

Para trabajar por la defensa nacional, llama a su pueblo a crear Círculos Bolivarianos en cada barrio, en cada organización. Ésta es su versión de los legendarios Comités de Defensa de la Revolución, los CDR, que instauró Fidel al principio de su largo gobierno:

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

The State, in the words of Oppenheimer, is the "organization of the political means"; it is the systematization of the predatory process over a given territory.

Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

Do not confuse democracy, anarchy and monarchy. Because the bees are happy and democratically assigned to their posts despite having the queen as their sole leader.

I always prepare my day in advance. Tomorrow's activities must be planned or decided today. Simply, because tomorrow never comes.

We can't force anyone to give out to charity or predict how much we can gain from a charitable organisation.

by the effective use of one's time.

He'd asked Simon about that. Why would the archangels potentially sabotage an organization that made their lives a hell of a lot easier? "It's a game," Simon had said. "They need us, but they'll never allow us to forget that they're the more powerful. Attacking me, attacking Sara, isn't about stopping the Guild—it's about reminding us the Cadre is watching.

Mrs. Kelly wore her glasses on a chain around her neck and had a piece of tissue tucked in her sleeve. And the only decorations on the classroom walls were a poster that said READ and a chart showing how all the letters of the alphabet looked in cursive. "Now

Those "others" are largely female. For in capitalist society, the organization of social reproduction rests on gender: it relies on gender roles and entrenches gender oppression.

ten-year, five-year and one-year goals, broken down all the way to daily task lists. He kept a catalogue of people he hoped to meet, all corporate movers and shakers or folks who could advance his career. Ruthlessly organized and efficient, he was a top corporate lawyer at a premier

In the beginning, therefore, the most important work is of separation. It is of pulling apart the tangled threads. It is of saying "This shall be separate from that. This shall be water, this shall be sky, and this shall be the line between them, the horizon." It is of setting a line between them.