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Organizing and organizations have largely been seen as spatial constructs. Organizing has been seen as the connecting of individuals and technologies through various mechanisms, whereas organizations have been construed as semi-stable entities circumscribed by boundaries that separate them from their external environments. The spatial view enables us to appreciate the difference between Microsoft and Apple, between Manchester United and Liverpool, between a family and a firm, and between the government of Iraq and the government of France, as they are made up of different actors, exhibit different patterns of actions, pursue different strategies, and relate to different external stakeholders.
A spatial view is a powerful one, mainly by enabling correspondence. By looking at the pattern of the way that Manchester United plays their matches during a certain period of time, the team can be distinguished from its rivals. It also enables analysis of how it plays differently from how it has played during earlier times, which again may be held up against the results of the matches. When a certain team formation appears successful, it becomes associated with the wins and ascribed the manager who implemented the formation. The manager is then seen as the person who had the ability to conceive and implement the formation, which confers particular qualities upon him. Those qualities prevail until the results begin to degrade, in which case alternative ways are found to explain the limitations of the formation, as well the manager’s abilities to make it work. In order for this way of making sense, a line of separation is drawn between the manager and the team in order to make for a correspondence that explains the variation in results over time. The overall picture becomes a mosaic numerous little pieces, neatly arranged, make up a plausible story of wins and defeats. Although the overall picture may change, the pieces remain small self-contained pieces.
Wayne Rooney, by cortexena13. CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 via Flickr.
When they are moved around to make another picture, the new formation is seen as different and distinct from the previous one. It is seen at a different instant, and the state in which it is seen as assumed to prevail as a sort of averaged out state for the duration of the period associated with that state. The change is the difference between the images. To see a changing thing at two different instants and making the inferences based on the differences between the instants is what the French philosopher Henry Bergson referred to as a series of immobilities. What is seen is a succession of images, where each image represents a static situation. A problem with such a view is that it is an incomplete rendering of what actually takes place, because it tells little or nothing about actual movement that takes place. As Bergson pointed out, what characterizes movement is precisely that it cannot be divided into imaginary stops, because it is indivisible. On the contrary, it leaves us with what Alfred North Whitehead called ‘simple location’. Simple location conveys an image of a process consisting of inert matter moved along in a series of mysterious jumps. We see that the mosaic has changed, but we know nothing about the process of changing it.
Yet, organizing is a vibrant process in which each instant plays a role. It is an infinitely complex world of encounters, instants and events, all taking place in time. To better understand how organizing works as a process, the very notion of time needs to be given its due attention. Unfortunately, although time and space have been seen as constituting an interwoven continuum in physics for nearly a century, in the social sciences they have been kept apart in a sort of Newtonian conception of the world. A process orientation to time, on the other hand, treats time as the very essences from which experience is made. Rather than being seen as a Newtonian inert framework against which movement is measured, time takes the role of mattering. Time matters, not just in the sense of being important, but by shaping the matter at hand, such as football players, teams, and leagues.
It is in the flow of time that organisations carve out their temporal existence. It is this ‘carving out’ that provides them with a temporal sense of where they come from and where that may be heading. The ‘carving out’ is done in a state of constant suspension between past and future, and is enacted at many instants. Streams of acts, decisions, emails, tweets, chats and many other types instants make up the temporal mosaic of the organization and contribute towards its becoming in time. Thus the formation of the football team is not a static entity, but a living process of instantiations as the match is played. In this view the formation does not make the acts, but the acts make the formation. Such a view does not deny formation as a spatial image. During a match a specific formation may be pursued. What it does, is explain the work of sustaining the formation. It explains how the formation, rather than just existing as an inert template, is given life. It confers temporal direction upon the formation and invites questions about its past and possible future, in the moment it is being played out.
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Do you ever sit down to plan and organize your work week but find that you enjoy the organizing more than the doing? That's me in a nutshell. It's taken a decade to realize this, but I'm grateful that I have! And this is why 2013 is going to be different! First my health. Last year was all about my mental health and figuring out my identity. This year it's about my physical health...and that includes stress levels.
I'm a highly active person, not in the sports or adventurous aspects, but I'm always moving, thinking, and analyzing. Can you relate? To bring the stress down, I reorganized my studio into "sections". I had this before, but not so broken down. When we move I will break it down even further.I have four sections: Office, Create, Process, and Craft.
Office
Your typical office desk, makes me feel like I am somewhere else other than my home. I have created a place for all of my mail, charity, financials, receipts, and project logs, and so much more. It is be cleared off at the end of the day and no more piles of papers! Everyone has a place. I always have piles and piles of papers that build up...nothing more stressful knowing I have to go through them and then never do. Create This is the happy place, where I create my work. I reorganized adding to the amount of mugs, laying out all my art materials instead of hiding them in drawers. I want to be exposed to the options for creating this year. Notice no chair (must get a stool though).
My husband, Brian, started a "movement" if you will at his work about standing at your desk while working. He did major study upon it, and now stands all day. His testimony declares how much more he's motivated and energized to work...especially through those grueling afternoon hours. I have always sat...so didn't think much on it except to pat him on the back. I got the 2013 Artist's and Graphic Designer's Market book and there it was! An article about standing in the studio to stay healthy. Well there ya go! I decided to make the move and have found the results quick and awesome. I can definitely work longer hours without becoming tired or even creatively numb. My imagination and creative juices run longer. I'm very excited about this, but if you go this route be sure to invest in a stool for frequent short sits (that's a healthy thing to do too), and a padded mat or insoles for your shoes to help your heels get through the change. I use a small step stool to alternate my feet. Process I needed a place to process my Etsy orders, make promotional items, or even mat and frame work. It's daunting to place a table in the middle of my small studio, but necessary. It hasn't gotten in the way yet! Part of my office desk problem last year was the use of office work slash processing. It got cluttered very fast, I felt like I was working in a box that was too small, and I was suffocating without knowing it. This has been extremely helpful! Craft I am a collector of all decorative papers, and with my little side hobbies of jewelery, bird houses, ornaments, etc., I needed a place to store all of it. A small little section of my studio is devoted to this, and I'm happy to say it's a piled up mess, but thankfully it can stay that way. All of the crafts were getting lost in my art materials, and it became frustration overload. Amazing what a small little change can do! Caffeine and Sleep The amount of caffeine I take in has changed, instead of consuming all the way up to when I go to bed, I cut off no later than 4pm. Sleep is hard for me to get enough of, but my hope is with the stress levels low and the calm of knowing that the Lord has my life in His hands, I will be able to get the rest needed. Getting to bed before midnight is a change that has started for the best. A goal to get 6 hours minimum. What do you think of these changes? Have you heard of any of these before? What are you doing differently this year?
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We have three large open bookcases in our family room that were stuffed over capacity with books and knick knacks. I dust them regularly, but it really isn’t enough to get all the crud that settles on top of the pages and under the books. So I decided to take everything off the shelves, clean them thoroughly, donate the books we never plan to use again and reorganize the shelves. This was massive labor. And I just want to say, thank God for dust masks!
Nice BIG pile of books to be donated!
What I didn’t count on, was the wonderful walk down memory lane this process would generate. I took books from my Mom’s house after she passed away three years ago, and most of them once belonged to my Father. (He died in 1975 when I was 14.) It was enlightening to look through the books he cherished, most from the 1960’s. While thumbing through his titles on architecture, psychology and business, I realzed just how inteliggent my Dad was and just how much the world has changed since I was a child. I was excited to find his signature in one of the books as well as a few notes from people who gave him various volumes.I am so grateful that he was a lover of art, because I now have an impressive collection of full color coffee table art books – Renoir, Picasso, Monet, Da Vinci and more. I am curious about the value of the 2 Beatles Illustrated Lyrics books from 1971 that belonged to my Dad as well. He was a huge Beatles fan, and looking at these books reminded me of how he used to play Beatles records in the living room while I twirled around in circles. I was about 4 years old!
One of the books I forgot I had was a collection of hippie-like poems and photos from one of my Dad’s former business partners. I wouldn’t have even remembered he gave it to me if it weren’t for the note he wrote to me inside the front cover. I think I’ll look him up on line and see if he’s still alive.
One of the best finds was a stash of pressed leaves and flowers I discovered in an old encyclopedia at the bottom of a tall stack of piled volumes. These clippings were collected on a walk I took with my daughter down the alleys in our neighborhood one spring when she was about 3 years old. She is now a freshman in college, so I guess no one ever moved or opened those books in the past 15 years!Among the other treasures I discovered inside some of the books were an old grocery list I made for a Thanksgiving dinner about 12 years ago, a beautiful bookmark with flowers and quotes on it, I forgot I ever had, and an old photo of my Grandfather, Joe.
I decided it was time to pass on a bunch of the books we no longer need – trivia books, novels we’ve read, yesterday’s business books and a few books we never finished reading due their boring nature. (Just cuz a book is published, doesn’t mean it is well written!)
But I was unable to part with my college English books – short stories, poems and plays – all with notes written in the margins. My husband and I both kept our massive-sized Complete Works of Shakespeare and have no intention of ever getting rid of them. However, I had to part with a partially shattered art project my daughter made in 3rd grade. It was a plaque with her name on it, made from unfired pottery.
Now I only hope that whoever inherits my old volumes will enjoy them as much as we have.
“Any Book is a New Book if You Have
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Last month we won 3 hours with a professional organizer, at Little Dude's PTA silent auction. I had never used a professional organizer before. I was pumped, and a little nervous. You never show an organizer that nicely organized sock drawer or the nifty pegboard in your garage. No. You show them your worst. This woman was going to see the dark, dusty, messy side of my world. And that is all of the PAPER we have been hauling around from apartment to house to different house to condo to apartment to house to current house (I am not kidding you).
So yesterday the brave Christa Lynn Mobley, of InnerLift Organizing, came to my study. There she is, to the right, sorting six boxes and two file drawers FULL of papers. Incredibly, she is even smiling. And she did not even flinch when she saw what I had waiting for her.
She suggested having laundry baskets ready for her to sort (BRILLIANT) and now I have two big baskets plus a box full of things to shred, plus another basket of things to recycle. On top of that she brought complete organization to the things we still need to hold on to, including an index to all of the files. They are all happily tucked away in my filing cabinet.
How long did this take her, you ask? Three days? No. Try THREE HOURS. Just three hours to sort through about 12 years of accumulated paper.
"In awe" seems like an inadequate way to describe how I feel about that.
I am always changing things around, cleaning up, redoing, shifting, repainting, reorganizing, stacking and filing. In the last two years I have made an addition to these behaviors. I am now getting RID of things. My husband’s remark?
“She is giving away everything that’s not nailed down!
Of course this is not completely true. I have not gotten rid of HIS things yet. HA!
For some reason it feels like everything in my house looks as OLD as the hills, the paintings, furniture, dishes, towels, lamps… EVERYTHING!
Perhaps it is because all of our kids have moved out and we have more time to stare at the stuff in our house?
Well, the stuff is GOING! I can almost hear my belongings shaking in fear, thinking to themselves, “Am I next?”
Bunnies Rock! I love them! Does this bunny look familiar? It’s ME! ha! I love personalizing my art and thinking about friends and family when I draw. When my kids were little I would draw a bunch of cartoons and they would come up to me and ask, “Which one is ME?!”
I’ve been pretty busy with studio cleaning!! Bags and bags of things are GONE from my sight! Why is it that I feel so much freer when clutter is OUT OF SIGHT?
The last few days have been working days! I have bunnies galore, many baby chicks fluttering about, a children’s book on the front burner and more fabric ideas ready to color.
I find it interesting that fall seems to be my most productive time. I get so energized! I can hardly wait to get working each morning! The cartoons are nearly flying off the page!!
Clothworks! I have not forgotten my Winter fabric collection revisions for you! I have many sketches ready to go and some fresh ideas! Have some more children’s fabric in the works too…. so fun! I love my job!!!!
Three Insider Secrets from a Professional Organizer
I want to thank Jessica for allowing me to be here today to clear up a long-standing myth about professional organizers. Our homes and offices are not picture-perfect 100% of the time.
In fact, to be perfectly honest, if unexpected company stopped by right now I’d have to leave them out on the porch for a few minutes while I (1) pulled the door to my office closed and (2) ran around to the other rooms scooping up clutter into a bag and stashing it in the closet.
What can I say, it’s been a busy few weeks, my new book Stop Throwing Money Away: Turn Clutter to Cash, Trash to Treasure and Save the Planet While You’re at It is out today and my desk is a sea of papers, clippings and sticky notes.
Secret #1: all my clutter has a home
Sure, I may have left it out planning to put it away later (then later never came), but when I do make the time I can put it away. That’s the difference, if I didn’t have a place to put it then I would not just be messy, I’d be disorganized.
Secret #2: organizing does not have to be expensive
Sure, you could invest in pricey drawer organizers and costly closet solutions or you could re-use common household items instead. I call it shopping from home or from a friend’s home, because what one of you doesn’t have the other one is bound to own.
I dedicated an entire section of my new book Stop Throwing Money Away (out today) to clever re-uses for stuff you already own. You can organize your entire home for under $100!
Here are some of my favorite re-uses:
Cardboard Paper Towel Insert For cords. Bend the extension cord back and forth then insert into the tube. Don’t forget to label the tube so you know what’s inside.
An Egg Carton As a drawer organizer. In a desk, makeup, or junk drawer, egg cartons make great organizers. They are shallow enough to fit in a slim drawer, you can leave the lid open to hold larger items or cut the lid off and just use the “cups.” You can even customize the size by trimming down the number of cups to suit your needs.
Clothespins For socks. Do you have a pile of unmatched socks? Most of us do. Instead of trying to match socks after they’re laundered, keep them together through the laundering process by clipping matches together as soon as you take them off using a clothespin.
CD Cases For necklaces. Keep your necklaces tangle-free by placing them in a CD case prior to traveling. Not only will they be protected, they’ll lie flat and will not be tangled into those disorganized knots.
Magnet In the medicine cabinet. Adhere a magnet to the inside of the medicine cabinet door or under one of the shelves. Then you can stick tweezers or clippers to the magnet so they are within reach.
Secret #3: the average home has 25 items (clutter) of value you can sell
In my new book Stop Throwing Money Away (out today) I help you find the items and show you exactly how to sell them for the most money (and no
11 Comments on Jamie Novak on Organization, last added: 3/3/2010
Thanks for the great tips Jamie! Every year I do a big Thanksgiving feast for 28 people. And every year cleaning the clutter out of the kitchen beforehand is the worst part. Hopefully your book will help! Good luck!
Very timely post for me. I just told my husband yesterday that we needed to organize his home office. Truthfully I dread it. I'll certainly use your information.
Joyce, my sentiments exactly! My biggest problem is unfinished projects, where I can't put things away until they're done. Some of them have been on the worktable in my office for over a year. I've decided it's my nature to clutter--luckily I'm married to a neat freak!
Anonymous said, on 3/3/2010 10:23:00 AM
My family used safety pins to hold socks together. It seems like they might go through the wash better. Great ideas though!
This is a fun post and topic - thanks Jaime. And I always appreciate someone who thinks differently than I do. I couldn't come up with these suggestions in a million, zillion years. So, it's cool that you share them!
I love your emphasis on saving money while getting organized, too. You really sold me on this book, Jaime. :)
Best of luck with your launch, I hope it goes really well!
How many times did I say that to my kids? More times than I can count. I hope I can offer some suggestions and tips that will make it easier for parents and kids to get the bedroom clean with minimal friction.
Parents: Make your child's room an atmosphere they will want to keep clean. Sometimes we decorate our kid's rooms as we would want them. Be sure the decor is pleasing to the child, not just to you. Ask them what they would like, and let them make color choices, ( within reason. Our son wanted to paint his room black. I put my foot down on that one.) Allow your children to browse through magazines and look for rooms or features they would like to have.
"A place for everything and everything in it's place" is a valuable reminder of how to keep order. I sometimes come across items when I am cleaning house that just don't seem to have "a place". You can waste a lot of time trying to figure out what to do with that item. Adding it to a designated place where it doesn't belong can throw your order out of whack and can become a slippery slope to chaos.
Children need colorful baskets and bins that are designated for specific items. They may need labels to remind them what goes where. Make it easy for children to keep things in order. Put things at your child's level so they don't have to throw things up high where they can't reach. They need convenient hooks for handing up jackets, caps, mittens, backpacks and they should be within their reach.
Rooms need to be set up with designated areas for specific purposes. If your child plays in his/her room you will need to arrange for areas for art, puzzles and games, clothes, school work and supplies, collections, etc.
Children need different things at different ages. Keep that in mind when planning the room. Make sure furniture is the right size for the age of the child. Give them adequate light for working on homework or puzzles, etc. Organization is more important than cutesy themes, although they can sometimes go together, but keep in mind that you want the kids to learn to clean up after themselves so make it fun and easy for them. Make sure the space or container is large enough and the right shape to hold the things that are supposed to go in it. A round basket is not a good holder for rectangular coloring books.
Re-evaluate the plan periodically. Remember children grow, needs and interes
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I hope it helps. My brother and I hid everything under the beds. I never said a word about it, but my kids did the same thing. I think I became lax about making sure they had "a place for everything" as they got older. When they were young I was pretty good about doing things to make it easy for them and they were very good about cleaning their rooms and keeping them orderly.
Great article, Shari. Would you allow me to use it in the next issue of Pages & Pens? This is a quarterly newsletter put out by Musing Our Children. I am editor of that newsletter and the spring version would be the perfect place for this.
Crzylady at Home Grown Insanity who is apparently both organized and an organizer has given me lots of food for thought and inspiration for reorganizing my creative space. She has this great checklist, perfect for creative spaces, and a wonderfully gentle manner. I'm planning to post my progress weekly, along with a project or two that I can actually work on as I gain space and order - and a feeling of peace.
As you can see, I have a long way to go - but I'm taking the first "baby steps" as Flylady decrees. (Flylady, in case you aren't already familiar with her, has a free online organize-your-whole-life-even-your-body website that has been very helpful to me in general, though not one bit with this space...). I'm throwing stuff out as well as shifting some things to other places, and creating some better homes (and labels) for the stuff I keep.
I took Crzylady's advice to start by clearing one big space, both to give me working room and a sense of encouragement - and it has helped. I got my drawing table cleared off of most of the unnecessary junk, re-established my stations and cleared the floor enough around them that I can fit easily in and out of my chairs. Phew! And then I even started clearing out the shelves on the wall behind. Look! There's some empty space! (Probably won't stay that way for long - but I'll settle for order.)
Anyway, I got things tidy enough to get working on my Christmas card (that's what the little Christmas tree in the foreground goes to), to make good progress on the sketches of two picture books, and to nearly finish this gift I started making a while ago. SPOILER ALERT, MARY LOU - don't peek.
It's a drawstring knapsack for my walking buddy. On Saturday mornings we visit estate sales and then take our walk in the neighborhood around it. I'm making her a bag to tote her loot, and I've used all thrifted materials I've acquired at the sales. The main fabric is blue and white ticking from a vintage pillow cover, the calico lining (shows at the casing) was a vintage fabric I bought from a crafter's huge stash (it was really something - and it takes a lot to impress a hoarder like me), and the pocket on the front is from an embroidered hand towel. The bag also has a couple interior pockets. I used the excelle
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I'm organizing my studio today. This may sound very industrious, but really, it actually involves me staring at my stacks and wishing that I could go to Ikea and buy all the wonderful new cabinets I've been dreaming of. With actual storage spaces the stacks would disappear and I would be able to accomplish so much more each day. As I said, I'm dreaming today.
Meanwhile, here are a few sketches from this week.
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Oh dear, I fixed up a studio for myself and bought Ikea storage and I STILL have stacks everywhere! I refer to that problem as being "severely creative".
Thanks for leaving a comment. I love your illustrations. Such fun meeting you.
Hee-hee. I went through the same thing, actually bought all the IKEA storage and then discovered I am a stacker with storage or not. The stacks just look a little more organized. Good luck to you! May a an assortment of stacks not be in your present future!
I'm sure you can relate to having a long list of things you need to do, and also things you want to do. To manage to actually get these things done, it's important to have a system. I have over the years created a system that works very good for me.
GOALS FOR THE YEAR At the end of each year I plan the next year and write down the goals I want to achieve. By looking at my goals I know what's important to work on and what I can put off to later.
MONTHLY PLAN At the end of each month I plan the next month. I write down the things I plan to do each week in that month.
WEEKLY PLAN By looking at my monthly plan I know exactly what to do each week. I make sure I have the weekly plan visible on my desktop so I see it every day.
Usually things takes more time than expected, and new important tasks show up so I don't manage to do everything on my plan each month (or week). When this happens I just put the tasks I didn't manage to do on the plan for the next month - and if it is important to me it gets done at some point.
This is what works for me, and makes me stay productive. I'm sure there's a lot of other systems out there, and I would like to hear about them.
Okay, I was trying to be all organized and ahead of the game before tax season but then we moved and my new office has a completely different set-up than the old office and I can't believe we've been 8 months and haven't set up a system for certain things. Like, gulp, receipts. (It's a sad story that I won't go into here.)
I will admit that I am a disorganized crazy person when it comes to setting up a new system. I am not dedicated to recording something in Excel as soon as I get home from buying it. This, of course, means that I have mad dashes before deadlines for things like paying income taxes. It also means the occasional sad story based on my own stupidity. (Like checks that I have to have re-issued because they have, gulp, expired.)
Since it is not next year yet I figure I have time to implement SOMETHING that will work for next year.
So what's your system? I mean exactly. In detail enough for a crazy person like me to follow. Do you hit the office supply store and carefully note on your receipt what you bought and the go home and go right to your office and enter it in Quicken or a spreadsheet? Does the scrap of paper ride along with you in your car for months until its time to have the car detailed and you save it (just barely) from being tossed with all the empty water bottles that have rolled under the seat? Is there a basket on your desk where everything lives untl the last Sunday of the month (unless there's a full moon) and then you suffer through hours of matching things up and filing them in folders and then ???
I know the basics of organization - everything needs a home. For some reason there are a few things, the most important things, in our new place that still don't have a home. I don't know why. It probably says something horrible about my psyche but oh well. I am what I am. And that's what scares me. The thought that I am not going to be able to change myself into even a fake organized person.
I have today off work. I usually work on Wednesday, so this is actually an extra day of freedom in my week. I should be using this time to clean up my so very messy house. And I did a little bit of cleaning. But mostly...not.
I read a book. Desperate Journey. I liked it. I'll talk about it later.
I puttered around the Internet. Found this great riff on the new iPhone. (Thanks Daily Nooz).
I ordered two shirts from One Horse Shy, the TEAM PLUTO shirt and the Stewart/Colbert 2008. I debated on the Orange is the New Tan shirt, but went with the others.
I checked on another kidlitosphere friend to see if we can still help her win a photo contest and we can.
I threw in a load of wash. And then another. And there will probably be at least one more. I'll fold the clothes and match the socks - oh so many socks - during the American Idol show I recorded. Don't scoff, it's the perfect laundry-folding show.
I need to put my sweaters in my dresser drawers, because apparently it is no longer going to be a balmy seventy degrees, but actually winter. And it's January, so probably about time I got around to putting the cold weather clothes in my room rather then pulling sweatshirts out of the boxes one at a time.
But in the book world, a post in Finding Wonderland started me thinking about how I organize my thoughts about books. As I am done with a book, I make notes. Sometimes its just little reminders, a quote from the book, or a thought I had while reading. Sometimes I basically write the whole post. I tried writing in a notebook, but I kept misplacing it. I tried writing in a word document, but I found I would want to add to it at work. Now I send my notes in an email to myself and file the message in a reviews folder until I want to use it. Some, I suspect, will never be used. Some I use the next day, it just depends what I feel inspired to write about it.
So, while I winterize my wardrobe, only three months behind schedule, comment and discuss your own system for remembering, recording, and reviewing books.
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Thank you for sharing, Sara! I like the idea of standing! Will try it. Blessings to support you in your changes! <3