Quotes About Organization

What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

Dolab?m? bo?altmam çok zaman?m? ald?. Peter'?n yazd???, saklad???m baz? notlar? buldum ve kupür albümüme koyabilmek için dikkatlice çantama att?m. Eski bir gofret. Tozlu, siyah saç tokalar?; ki bu oldukça ironikti çünkü ihtiyac?n?z oldu?unda onlar? asla bulamazd?n?z.

I file this away under Misc. Facts about M.

The first couple of days of school are always throwaway days of handing out books and syllabuses and figuring out where you're sitting and who you're sitting with. Now is when school really begins.

Survival instructors have a saying: get organized or die.

Fostering relationships across the organization is seen as the important element in creating coordinated actions. A strong commitment to a common set of values provides the framework for this process. Everyone thinks about the customer. Product

Gain people's emotional commitment to the strategy Any strategy, however brilliant, will fail unless people understand it and are emotionally committed to its success. Therefore it is crucial to explain why the strategy is important to the organisation and the individual.

One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to.

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

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Thus, there is a gap between the measureable contribution and the actual, total contribution of the agent. As a result, measured performance (such as an increase in the division's profits or a rise in the company's stock price) may actually lead to the organization getting less of what it really needs from its employees. Moreover, there was an inevitable distortion of incentives created by the quest for simple, quantifiable standards by which to measure and reward performance

If you FOCUS on your PRIORITIES---You ELIMINATE all of your CONFUSION.

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Tragedija svih velikih religija je da one krše i izopa?uju same principe slobode ?im postanu masovne organizacije, kojima vlada religiozna birokratija.

The coffins are really for us. The organization surpasses itself in that kind of thing.

Mackworth turned to Conner and said, "I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair." "So did I," Conner replied, "but I've learnt a devil of a lot in the last five minutes.

It is slothful not to compress your thoughts

I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration

Whereas traditional reductionism sought to find the commonality underlying diversity in reference to a shared substance, such as material atoms, contemporary systems theory seeks to find common features in terms of shared aspects of organization.

And no one knows a show like its stage manager.

En ese momento, la sede de la FIFA pasó de ser el hogar del fútbol a convertirse en una tienda delictiva de lavado de dinero.

Management exists to keep the company on a steady course and provide reliability and predictability. Paradoxically, this can create blindspots that go beyond work processes and procedures, adversely affecting a company's core strategy.