Assuming Quote by Robert Conquest

A bureaucracy is like a living creature, with instincts of self-preservation and an urge to control all things for its own protection.

— Gordon R Dickson

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

— Anonymous

Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place…

— Joel Ross

Leaders determine the level of an organization.

— John C. Maxwell

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse…

— Jonathan Raymond

“Not until those without information relinquish their control can an organization run better, smoother and faster and reach its maximum potential.”

— Simon Sinek

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc;…

— Ferdinand Lassalle

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is…

— Tom Rath

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed…

— Alan Keyes

A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to…

— Charlie Munger

The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity:…

— Margaret Heffernan

“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract,…

— George Washington