Quotes About Organization

Alexis de Tocqueville admired the laws that formally established America's democratic order, but he argued that voluntary organizations were the real source of the nation's robust civic life. John Dewey claimed that social connection is predicated on the vitality and depth of close and direct intercourse and attachment. Democracy begins at home, he famously wrote, and its home is the neighborly community.

The organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent

Moser was a great believer in checklists.

We have found out… that we cannot trust some people who are nonconformists,' declared Ray Krock, one of the founders of Mcdonald's, angered by some of his franchisees. 'We will make conformists out of them in a hurry… The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

The Church is seen as a secular organization - a real-estate conglomerate, a powerful lobby for the oppression of women - which has little or nothing to do with spiritual transcendence. It will doubtless seek to ban this book. Less than two hundred and fifty years ago, it would have burned the author.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

the spread of capitalistic organization concentrated manufacturing on central premises–separating the home and workplace, with devastating consequences for female enterprise.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Solvay Business School Professor Paul Verdin and I developed a perspective that frames an organization's strategy as a hypothesis rather than a plan.62 Like all hypotheses, it starts with situation assessment and analysis –strategy's classic tools. Also, like all hypotheses, it must be tested through action. When strategy is seen as a hypothesis to be continually tested, encounters with customers provide valuable data of ongoing interest to senior executives.

The other possibility is that you're learning something about your colleagues or your organization that suggests that you're not in a job that is a good fit with your personal values and goals. If you're sharing sincere concerns, ideas, and ambitions for the organization, and others are indifferent, turned off, or disparaging, then you may want to look for an opportunity where you will have colleagues who appreciate your commitment to making a positive difference at work.

We now know that psychological safety emerges as a property of a group, and that groups in organizations tend to have very interpersonal climates. Even in a company with a strong corporate culture, you will find pockets of both high and low psychological safety.

Another way to think about the voice-silence asymmetry is captured in the phrase "no one was ever fired for silence." The instinct to play it safe is powerful. People in organizations don't spontaneously take interpersonal risks. We don't want to stumble into a sacred cow. We can be completely confident that we'll be safe if we are silent, and we lack confidence that our voices will really make a difference – a voice inhibiting combination.

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Create multi-levels in your home. Leave half a shelf empty, so Kitty has a place to perch and claim her place.

Private corporation is like a slaughter house where the humanity is butchered every day and night in the form of humiliation and atrocity on employees. The more the organization is exposed, the more it increases harassment.

But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.

This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to wit, that the most scientific system of numbering will not help to find a book if the book is no longer in its place.

The first step toward enhancing performance in an organization is realizing that improvement is possible only if participants abandon business-as-usual practices. Doing so requires recognizing and rejecting three prevailing myths.

The tennis bag is a lot like your heart—you have to know what's in it at all times.

Awaken each day with a plan, retire each day with a plan for the next, and you will know each day will be fruitful." Andreas Simic

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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I think once you get into the routine of race weekends, and there's more of a structure, it gets a bit easier.

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.