Sense of urgency Quote by Patricia Crisafulli

“...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize the very interactions that lead to new ideas. They erect walls…

— Jonah Lehrer

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities.…

— John Scarlett

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

— James Cook

We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

— Carl Icahn

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn’t give service,…

— William S. Knudsen

Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to…

— Srikumar Rao

One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk…

— Kenneth C. Frazier

Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it…

— Chris Fussell

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like…

— Jennifer Pahlka

Silos and bureaucracy are well-oiled machines in corporate America, but they are ultimately perpetuated by individual behavior. If we start behaving differently, we can…

— Chris Fussell