Keyword: Bureaucracy (Page 2)

If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it's a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

Murphy’s Laws

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

1. When in charge ponder
2. When in trouble delegate
3. When in doubt mumble.

Murphy’s Laws Speech

Bureaucracy: A system that enables ten men to do the work of one.

Definitions Government

1. Never use one word when a dozen will suffice.
2. If it can be understood, it's not finished yet.
3. Never be the first to do anything.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws

Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional ones.

Murphy’s Laws

An inexorable upward movement leads administrators to higher salaries and narrower spans of control.

Money Murphy’s Laws

A sure sign of bureaucracy is when the first person who answers the phone can’t help you.

Government

Give a civil servant a good cause and he’ll wreck it with cliches, bad punctuation, double negatives and convoluted apology.

(1928 – 1999) British politician & diarist
Occupations People Work

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.

Murphy’s Laws