Bureaucracy Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

— Anonymous

Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that…

— Michel Foucault

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Power is the flower of organization.

— A. Philip Randolph

“Corporate power consolidation is so enormous that even the government could be viewed as a small appendage of a larger corporate organism.”

— Bryant McGill

People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked but didn't;…

— Peter Drucker

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you…

— Mindy Grossman

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life…

— Herbert Hoover

“offering silent tribute to the unwillingness of any bureaucracy to go out of business. By”

— Scott Turow

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

— Alex Gibney