Quotes About Organization

After you have planned each detail of an activity, organized a tray of materials, and practiced with them, you can model a cycle of activity with the child. Do so very slowly and methodically, pausing briefly after each step. Your child wants to imitate you but his thinking skills are limited. He relies on habit, pattern and repetition.

Life is about juggling five balls in the air. They are health, family, friends, integrity and career/achievement.

Despite the most meticulous planning and organisation, there is no successful way out of any difficult situation without the hand of god.

In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a "quick return to power," forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible "dialogue" with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls into an elitist game, which it calls "realism.

Every move by the oppressed towards unity points towards other actions; it means that sooner or later the oppressed will perceive their state of depersonalization and discover that as long as they are divided they will always be easy prey for manipulation and domination. Unity and organization can enable them to change their weakness into a transforming force with which they can re-create the world and make it more human.

If anyone, on the other hand, assuming a democratic, progressive position, therefore argues for the democratization of the programmatic organization of content, the democratization of his or her teaching—in other words, the democratization of curriculum—that person is regarded by the authoritarian as too spontaneous and permissive, or else as lacking in seriousness. If

This primary question of life organization is immensely important. If making money is the main goal, a person can often forget what his or her true interests are or how he or she wants to deserve recognition from others. It is much more difficult to add on other values to a life that started out with just making money in mind than it is to make some personally interesting endeavor financially possible or even profitable.

People who learn to extract the key ideas from new material and organize them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge show an advantage in learning complex mastery. A mental model is a mental representation of some external reality.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

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

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

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

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance.

Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.

Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change.

Chain of command was always a nominal concept in the division, you trusted people to do their job right.

Prime Minister Adolphus sat at a broad desk at the far end, surrounded by a cluttered nest of bookcases and cheap metal filing cabinets.

sauvignon blanc and turns to look out the window. "Africans can't do governments," he suddenly announces. "We are useless at it, disorganized." I close my newsmagazine and nod noncommittally. "And our institutions never work because we never pay our dues." He reaches up and presses his bell for more wine.

Leadership is ultimately about leverage. Effective leaders leverage themselves—their ideas, energy, relationships, and influence—to create new patterns in organizations.

Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen (Organization of Former Members of the SS), known by the acronym ODESSA, appears to have been largely mythical.

Glancing at his notes

I must confess that we British Liaison Officers were slow to understand their point of view; as a nation we have always tended to assume that those who do not whole-heartedly support us in our wars have some sinister motive for not wishing to see the world a better place. This attitude made us particularly unsympathetic towards the Balli Kombëtar, although the latter was a thoroughly patriotic organization. The Balli