Quotes About Organization

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Removing one task can free up a couple of minutes of free time, every day... which turns into hours or days every year. Time

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Management is, in the end, the most creative of all the arts—for its medium is human talent itself.

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

As may be seen, the majority of public priesthoods had a collegial structure;

To fail to plan is to plan to fail.

sociales, la envidia y la cobardía. Si esos rebaños se compusieran de bestias corajudas lo hubieran hecho pedazos todo. Creer en el montón es creer que se puede tocar la luna con la mano. Vea lo que le pasó a Lenin con el campesino ruso. Pero ya está todo organizado y no cabe otra cosa

Durante un rato contemplé la máquina de escribir, el libro en donde estaban anotadas las visitas, un recipiente de madera lleno de lápices, clips y gomas de borrar que parecían estar en perfecto orden, lo que me pareció imposible pues nadie en su sano juicio ordena clips (lápices y gomas, sí, pero no clips) [...]

I like to leave things tidy. One must leave so many things incomplete in life that I take pleasure in finishing those I can.

I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.

A bed. A chest. A small stand by the bed.

In August 1914, the BEF mustered two corps totalling four divisions (plus a cavalry division) from an Army which, at full strength, could muster eleven divisions. When the Battle of the Somme opened two years later, on 1 July 1916, the BEF could muster 58 divisions in 18 corps organized in four armies

Morale is a fragile thing. Its creation and maintenance are among the most important duties that can fall to a commander and neither Joffre nor Nivelle devoted as much thought to this issue as it deserved. Morale is maintained by a wide range of means: by discipline and training, by good leadership, by organization, by caring for the wounded, by regular reliefs

to the sack and began removing cartons, placing them on the table.

I reach for my clothes

Jonas: 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.' ...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

Divide the infinite future into five-minute blocks, and take them one by one.

his time being divided into days with too many things to do, and days with far too many things to do

I planned my life by the hour as closely as one plans a year, and no further than an hour.

Silver manned the com; and Leo—held down the post of chief engineer, he supposed. The chain of command became rather blurred at this point. Perhaps his title ought to be Official Ship's Worrier.

Su padre y el Estado Mayor ya lo intentaron hace quince años; les llevó dos años poner los reglamentos al día. - Bueno, eso es lo que pasa con los comités.