Quotes about Organization

Single handle every task: Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task, and then work without stopping until the job is 100 percent complete. This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity.

This discipline of systematic time planning can be very helpful to you. Many people have told me that the habit of taking a couple of hours at the end of each week to plan the coming week has increased their productivity dramatically and changed their lives completely. This technique will work for you as well.

Make work appointments with yourself and then discipline yourself to keep them. Set aside thirty-, sixty-, and ninety-minute time segments that you use to work on and complete important tasks. Many highly productive people schedule specific activities in preplanned time slots all day long. These people build their work lives around accomplishing key tasks one at a time.

Get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off the bus, and then get the right people in the right seats on the bus.

It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day.

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out

The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities—what we do with, and how we manage our time.

So often the problem is in the system, not in the people. If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.