Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos once written immediately become proof that they were busy.
I cant stand this proliferation of paperwork. Its useless to fight the forms. Youve got to kill the people producing them.
Eugene McCarthy despaired The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos once written immediately become proof that they were busy.
We can lick gravity but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.