Quotes About Organization

Now and forever, culture is only as strong or weak as the employees that make up the organization.

Choose people over process. Many adjustments can be made to an organization's systems, but changes are only as effective as the human beings making them happen.

Defend organizational change. Inevitable resistance can be mitigated if the change is carefully discussed, planned, embraced, communicated and ultimately defended.

Leaders are the stewards of organizational energy

The skillful management of energy, individually and organizationally, makes possible something that we call full engagement. To be fully engaged, we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.

Rituals also help us to create structure in our lives.

Drucker's observation means that the controls should be consistent with the strategy, not that they should be selected after the strategy is implemented.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

there's a better place to store your dead batteries than in your camera." "Yeah, I know. I usually keep them in my flashlight.

Angelo, beds are for sleeping, chairs are for sitting, tables are for piling books.' 'All flat surfaces are for piling books.' Angelo says

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Squeezing the most out of life takes a little executive planning. I used to say to the children when they were growing up, "If you have twelve things to do, and twelve hours to do them in, don't spend the first ten hours doing just one thing or you'll find yourself in an awful mess at the end of the day. Plan. And everything will get done.

Women are lucky, I think, because they can get so much more variety into their lives than most men can. With a little organization a woman can excel as wife, homemaker, mother, career woman, and gracious hostess, be lovely to look at and to be with—and still have time left over to be a good friend to a lot of people. And a happy friend. Of course, we all have our problems. But I don't inflict mine on my friends. At least I try not to.

My dresses always go into their individual plastic bags, pinned to canvas-covered wooden hangers in a special way so that they'll hang right. (Some hangers do terrible things to the shoulder line.)

My most important rule is: Never put anything back soiled. Things get hung up at night, but first thing in the morning I bring them out in daylight to see if there's a water spot, a grease spot, a smudge.

Lynn said that therapy was like separating the strands in a tangled web of yarn. It made sense that things would keep getting more separate for awhile so that we eventually came back together in an organized way. (205)

She sat staring at the heavy curtains that shut out the gentle twilit garden, thinking how few things in life were un-muddled, firmly outlined as they were surely intended to be? One could organize, direct, plan each hour in advance and still the muddle persisted. Nothing in life was really water-tight, nothing secret, nothing secure.

Performance, Porter argues, must be defined in terms that reflect the economic purpose every organization shares: to produce goods or services whose value exceeds the sum of the costs of all the inputs. In other words, organizations are supposed to use resources effectively. The financial measure that best captures this idea is return on invested capital (ROIC).

Only by competing to be unique can an organization achieve sustained, superior performance.

Strategy explains how an organization, faced with competition, will achieve superior performance.

The key to competitive success—for businesses and nonprofits alike—lies in an organization's ability to create unique value.

Strategy explains how an organization, faced with competition, will achieve superior performance. The definition is deceptively simple.

However, leadership is not confined to the CEO. Leadership is better understood as a process that can take place at any level of an organization.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.