Quotes About Organization

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

When classes lose cohesion, split them!

The architecture of a system is defined by a set of software components and the boundaries that separate them.

SRP: The Single Responsibility Principle An active corollary to Conway's law: The best structure for a software system is heavily influenced by the social structure of the organization that uses it so that each software module has one, and only one, reason to change.

The topmost parts of the source file should provide the high-level concepts and algorithms. Detail should increase as we move downward, until at the end we find the lowest level functions and details in the source file.

Architects separate functionality based on how, why, and when it changes, and then organize that separated functionality into a hierarchy of components.

But then closely related concepts should not be separated into different files unless you have a very good reason. Indeed, this is one of the reasons that protected variables should be avoided.

The fact is that making messes is always slower than staying clean, no matter which time scale you are using.

Dependent Functions. If one function calls another, they should be vertically close, and the caller should be above the callee, if at all possible.

Notice how well those three align with the three big concerns of architecture: function, separation of components, and data management.

What do we talk about when we talk about architecture?

Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation's communication structure

His political writings around the turn of the century reflect the emergence of Leninism (a word he himself never used) as an amalgam of the Russian revolutionary heritage and Marxism. One of his themes was the paramount importance of the practical side of the movement—program, organization, and tactics.

Trotsky contended that Lenin was more of a Jacobin than a Marxist and made his often-quoted prediction that "these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization is substituted for the party, the Central Committee is substituted for the party organization, and finally the 'dictator' is substituted for the Central Committee.

The only acceptable type of autonomy was one exercised through the Soviet organization of a region in which one or more distinct national groups predominated.

was now mainly a question of formalizing the de facto control of the party organization that Stalin had attained. This was done when the Central Committee's organs were re-elected following the Eleventh Congress.

The one kind of organizing activity that really engaged his interest and aroused his effort was "organizational work" in the special Bolshevik sense of personnel placement.

One must, in addition, evince a favorable disposition toward the party regime of the general secretary, usefulness to the Stalin organization.

The party-state structure still showed considerable looseness in organization and mode of functioning.

Before long, however, Djugashvili was organizing one or more new study circles of which he himself was the mentor.[129] Again, a quality by which he was distinguished in later years—the urge for personal power—was finding expression in the seminary period.

What you need is a mental filtering system based on a scale of priorities and your long-term goals.

With the company, we should look deeply at the organization itself—how well people communicate with one another, how quickly and fluidly information is passed along. If people are not communicating, if they are not on the same page, no amount of changes in the product or marketing will improve performance.