Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes
Top 15 Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
Structure follows strategy.
- Alfred Chandler, pictured right, in Strategy and Structure
(1962)
No 2
Bureaucracies defend the status quo long past the time the quo has lost its status.
- Laurence Peter, pictured right, in The Peter Pyramid
(1986)
No 3
Keep it simple, stupid (KISS).
- Tom Peters, pictured right above, and Robert Waterman, pictured right, in In Search of Excellence (1982)
No 4
Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt,
mumble
- James H. Boren (1925–2010), American writer, pictured right.
No 5
Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.
- Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacher, pictured right,
in Small is
Beautiful (1973)
No 6
Maximize creativity...that means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
- Anita Roddick (1942-2007),
founder of the British cosmetics retailer, the Body Shop, pictured right.
No 7
The power of the position is giving way to the power of the person.
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter, pictured right, in When Giants
Learn To Dance (1989)
No 8
The introduction of Ad-hocracy increases the adaptability of organizations; but it strains the adaptability of
men.
- Alvin Toffler, pictured right, in Future Shock (1970)
No 9
The primary source of the superiority of bureaucratic administration lies in the role of technical knowledge
which...has become completely indispensable.
- Max Weber, pictured right, in The Theory of Social and Economic
Organization (1947)
No 10
The structure of an organization can be defined simply as the sum total of the ways in which it divides its
labour into distinct tasks and then achieves co-ordination among them.
-Henry Mintzberg, pictured right, in The Structuring of
Organizations (1979)
No 11
I think it will be a clash between the political will and the administrative won't.
- Jonathan Lynn (1943-) , pictured right above,and Antony Jay 1930-),
pictured right, write in Yes Prime Minister (BBC TV series):
No 12
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in
the art of perceiving – HOW NOT TO DO IT.
-Charles Dickens (pictured
right) in Little Dorrit (1857).
No 13
To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change ... and fosters
a power that is derived from respect, not rules.
- Ricardo Semler, pictured right, in Maverick!
(1993).
No 14
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to
regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
- C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–93), English writer, pictured
right
No 15
It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member
has a vivid recollection of them and that every member’s recollection of them differs violently from every other
member’s recollection.
- Jonathan Lynn (1943-) , pictured right above,and Antony
Jay 1930-), pictured right, in Yes Prime Minister (BBC TV series):
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