480 Quotes About Organization

The first step in turning around your organization’s performance? Think positively about the people you lead.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

Organize, don't agonize.

An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.

I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something -- like, say, organization ...

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.