Quotes About Organization

Power in an organization is the capacity generated by relationships.

What is clutter but the physical manifestation of indecision, procrastination and not being entirely engaged in your own life?

The ways schools were organized (the homogeneous tracks, the division of students by age), their scale of virtues (where the worst sins involved talking out of turn or not standing properly in line, while generosity was barely noticed), the labels "academic" and "nonacademic" all offered glimpses into social history. Why, for example, was putting together a student newspaper nonacademic, whereas lessons in handwriting or filling in multiple-choice workbooks were academic?

How to be a great teacher: Know your students. Know your subject. Make it relevant. Teach in an organized place, in an organized way. Encourage curiosity. Ask the questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Time is priceless. Care.

The ultimate insanity is to so organize society that power, wealth, and information are concentrated in the hands of so few people that they have the power, for whatever reason, to put to death our species and the living earth as well. But so we have.

Only an unimaginative man would think that mechanistic, command-and-control organizations could ever produce an equitable, enduring, free society. Only a thoughtless man would create them. Only an arrogant man would run them. Only a cruel man would perpetuate them.

In Visa, we tried to create an invisible organization and keep it that way. It's the results, not the structure or management that should be apparent

Make a list for how to have a good day. First thing in the morning, write down what you are going to eat, the errands you are going to run, the bills you are going to pay. Don't extend this list beyond one day. Include on it at least one thing you want to accomplish that you have been putting off. As you write, check in on your comfort level. Everything on your list should lead to the same result: you will feel good today.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

According to the acclaimed author and philosopher Napoleon Hill, "Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power if and when it is organized into definite plans of action and directed at a definite end.

Bons leaders comprennent pas toujours que le leadership est ni un prix de reconnaissance, ni une licence pour exécuter le pouvoir, mais il est une grande responsabilité pour faire ressortir le meilleur chez les autres tout en respectant leurs objectifs organisationnels.

Effective Leaders transform weaknesses of their followers into strengths, enabling the followers to see and identify opportunity in every threat. Effective Leaders are not sweet talking, and they don't turn the organization into a Country Club; but they surely uplift the organization above the status quo, and importantly, expand the capability of their followers beyond the norm.

El liderazgo tiene que ver con la rendición de cuentas y responsabilidad, y no es seguro que por la subida de una escalera, el poder, la política y la posición. Verdadero líder siempre toma la responsabilidad por el bienestar de su / sus seguidores y la organización por igual a la vez ..... y esa es la gran diferencia entre un jefe oportunista y un líder comprometido, en mi opinión.

Leadership is all about accountability and responsibility, and it's surely not about the ladder climbing, power and position. True Leader takes the responsibility for the well being of his followers and his organization alike.......and that's the big difference between a Bossand a Leader, in my view.

Leadership is all about accountability and responsibility, and it's surely not about the ladder climbing, power, politics and position. True Leader always takes the responsibility for the well being of her/his followers and the organization alike, at the same time.....and that's the big difference between an opportunist Boss and a committed Leader, in my view.

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.