Keyword: Bureaucracy (Page 2)

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

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Bureaucracy is based on a willingness to either pass the buck or spend it.

Government organization

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Bad regulation begets worse regulation.

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.

(1925 – 2010) American humorist & writer

An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.

Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.