"Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis……" — James Fallows
"Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job."
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34 Quotes by James Fallows
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think…
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The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1…
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According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining…
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially…
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the…
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed…
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Make the important interesting.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko…
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Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
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The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant…
— Madeleine Albright
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right…
— Herman Cain
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government…
— Chris Chocola
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy…
— Francesca Annis
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Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.
— Theodore Beale
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
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Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be…
— Reginald Fessenden
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths,…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick…
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