Quotes about Structure

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

I think Levi's Stadium is phenomenal.

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

Organizations typically structure themselves around function or business unit or geography—but successful growth companies optimize around the job.

Every successful product or service, either explicitly or implicitly, was structured around a job to be done. Addressing a job is the causal mechanism behind a purchase. If someone develops a product that is interesting, but which doesn't intuitively map in customers' minds on a job that they are trying to do, that product will struggle to succeed—unless the product is adapted and repositioned on an important job.

For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order.

Order is Heaven's first law.

Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as a warp of prose amid the weft of poetry

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. It gives meaning and self-esteem to people who are parents. It gives a role model to children.

Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.