I dusted my books off, placing each one—sorted alphabetically and by genre—on the shelves Dad installed. What some people might call “anal,” I’d call efficient. What good was it to have a book if you couldn’t find it when you wanted it?

~ Aileen Erin

Aileen Erin Books Organizing

We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Dreaming Dreams Ego Enlightenment Exploration Future Goals Habits Happiness Healing Hell To Well Identities Identity Knowing Yourself Life Life And Living Life Changing Life Purpose Mental Disorders Now Oneness Organizing Past Personality Planning Plans Present Principles Relationship Road To Recovery Sanity Self Awareness Self Improvement Self Realization Staying Positive Stayingpositiveu Com Thinking True Self Wellness

Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.

~ Robert E. Davis

Robert E. Davis Decision Making Feedback Control Goals Internal Control Systems Itg Management Monitoring Objectives Organizing Planning Policy Enforcement Policy Formation

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

~ Tim Wise

Tim Wise Action Culture Inequities Justice Organizing Racism Standing Still

I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.

~ Myles Horton

Myles Horton Active Learning Doing Experience Organizing Theorizing

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.

~ Eric Mann

Eric Mann Organizing Progressivism Responsibility

The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not all capable of orienting themselves equally swiftly, or of reorganizing with the same rhythm. The traditional ruling class, which has numerous trained cadres, changes men and programmes and, with greater speed than is achieved by the subordinate classes, reabsorbs the control that was slipping from its grasp. Perhaps it may make sacrifices, and expose itself to an uncertain future by demagogic promises; but it retains power, reinforces it for the time being, and uses it to crush its adversary and disperse his leading cadres, who cannot be be very numerous or highly trained.

~ Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci Class Struggle Hegemony Organizing Revolution

I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.

~ Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem Conflict Organizing Sharing

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Gods Organizing

When the evening comes, prepare yourself for the morrow ~Donald Pillai

~ Donald Pillai

Donald Pillai Integrity Integrity Inknowledge Integrity Religion Organizing Planning Pray Preparation Punctuality Time Management

Actions & statements made on the basis of critical analysis & discernmentare not the same as divisiveness. Know the difference.

~ Tur-Ha Ak

Tur-Ha Ak Critical Thinking Organizing Political

The quality of conversation appears to be a key factor in the evolution of an organization.

~ Philip Streatfield

Philip Streatfield Conversation Organizing

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

Rebecca Mackinnon Organizing Way Governance