Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes
Top 15 Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-chandler.jpg)
Structure follows strategy.
- Alfred Chandler, pictured right, in Strategy and Structure
(1962)
No 2![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-peter.jpg)
Bureaucracies defend the status quo long past the time the quo has lost its status.
- Laurence Peter, pictured right, in The Peter Pyramid
(1986)
![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-peters-tom.jpg)
No 3
Keep it simple, stupid (KISS).![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-waterman.jpg)
- Tom Peters, pictured right above, and Robert Waterman, pictured right, in In Search of Excellence (1982)
No 4![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-boren.jpg)
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![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-schumacher.jpg)
Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.
- Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacher, pictured right,
in Small is
Beautiful (1973)
No 6![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-roddick.jpg)
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![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-kanter.jpg)
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![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-toffler.jpg)
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![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-weber.jpg)
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![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-mintzberg.jpg)
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)
![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-lynn.jpg)
No 11
I think it will be a clash between the political will and the administrative won't.![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-jay.jpg)
- Jonathan Lynn (1943-) , pictured right above,and Antony Jay 1930-),
pictured right, write in Yes Prime Minister (BBC TV series):
No 12
![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
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
![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-semler.jpg)
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).
![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-parkinson.jpg)
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
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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.![Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes Structure and Bureaucracy Quotes](images/quotes-jay.jpg)
- Jonathan Lynn (1943-) , pictured right above,and Antony
Jay 1930-), pictured right, in Yes Prime Minister (BBC TV series):
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