Quotes About Organization

To be successful as a B requires: 1.? Ownership or control of systems, and 2.? The ability to lead people.

Robert asks his students how many of them can make a better hamburger than McDonald's. Most raise their hands. But the reason McDonald's is making millions and they aren't is because McDonald's is excellent at business systems.

The three most important management skills necessary to start your own business are management of: 1.?Cash flow 2.?People 3.?Personal time

The main management skills needed for success are: 1.?Management of cash flow 2.?Management of systems 3.?Management of people

then blame them for the problems we had as an organization.

focus on developing management skills. The three most important management skills necessary to start your own business are management of: 1.?Cash flow 2.?People 3.?Personal time

A corporation is merely a legal document that creates a legal body without a soul.

When Marilla took Anne up to bed that night she said stiffly: Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your clothes all about the floor when you took them off. That is a very untidy habit, and I can't allow it at all. As soon as you take off any article of clothing fold it neatly and place it on the chair. I haven't any use at all for little girls who aren't neat.

The gap between promises and results is widespread and clear. The gap nobody knows is the gap between what a company's leaders want to achieve and the ability of their organization to achieve it.

Without execution, the breakthrough thinking breaks down, learning adds no value, people don't meet their stretch goals, and the revolution stops dead in its tracks. What you get is change for the worse, because failure drains the energy from your organization. Repeated failure destroys it.

Among the deficiencies common to the Italian and the U.S. postal systems are: - inefficiency, and delays in deliveries - old-fashioned organization - low efficiency and low salaries of personnel - high frequency of strikes - very high operational deficit - Roberto Vacca, The Coming Dark Age

This is what happens when you treat your 168 hours as a blank slate. This is what happens when you fill them up only with things that deserve to be there. You build a life where you really can have it all.

If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.

We're making a list. And checking it twice. Edward shook his head.

My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it.

If you keep the gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule.

no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule.

I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.

So where does the human error come in? Well, sometimes I buy a stamp and mount it in my album without troubling to log it in my catalog. And later I find it offered on somebody else's list, and see that it's one I don't have, and buy it again. And then when I go to mount the new copy in my album, there's one already there.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.