Quotes About Organization

Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

Both creatively and organizationally, being medicated has helped me immensely.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

We know a post-email world is coming. Asana is the first credible post-email application.

I can clean my own house. Now, maybe a couple of times a year we have a cleaning crew come in before we have a party, but otherwise, I'm able to maintain it myself.

For me, making schedules are critical to make sure we attend to all the needs of the kids and our family. After adding everyone's schedule on the calendar, I make sure that every day I have some sacred time for myself so I can recharge.

I just appreciated so much the contract they gave me, and I wanted to give something back to the Cubs' organization.

My main interest is in cultivating my company.

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

Being chaotic isn't cute.

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

Some coaches don't want their players to be the stars. They want their systems to be the stars.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.

Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables, for that matter.

A mercurial plan of action may have worked in the Trump Organization board room, but it's a disastrous tactic in foreign affairs.

I'm not an enemy of formations and tactics because they are important - but you get to the point where the whole system loses balance.