Organization Quotes

What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.

The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

An index is a great leveller.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

Leaders determine the level of an organization.

People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked but didn't; the things that once were productive and no longer are.

I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself.

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

This is something else that is drilled into us in the military: Make sure you know who your replacement is, in case you become a casualty. So you have to have depth within an organization.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

Hey, size works against excellence.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.