Civil service Quote by Charles Stross

“That tiny part of your soul that believes in a ‘good government’ ideal requires you to avert your eyes from the segment of the…

— Jim Geraghty

“Organizations are not just places where people have jobs.”

— Doug Smith

One of the problems with the civil service is the way in which people are shuffled such that they either do not acquire expertise…

— Dominic Cummings

“Don’t build the organization to fit the people.”

— Ray Dalio

“Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.”

— A.A. Milne

“Still, organizations are composed of people, and the more effective those people, the stronger the organization.”

— RosettaBooks

“I hate organizations. Folks got to be free, able to breathe, and make up their own minds about stuff, not be fed a party…

— Karen Marie Moning

“Top-down government breeds irresponsible individuals, and the confiscation of civil society by the state leads to a widespread refusal among the citizens to act…

— Roger Scruton

“organizations are composed of people, and the more effective those people, the stronger the organization.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“A leader’s job is to get it right for the organization, not to be right.”

— Susan Scott

“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all…

— Jasper Fforde

“all organizations basically have two types of people: those who work to be part of a mission, and those who work for a paycheck.”

— Ray Dalio