Are Easier To Enter Than Leave

Become Less Valuable Together

Begin As Solutions

Clog

Consume More Than They Create

Cost More Than They Create

Create Drag

Create Friction

Create Resistance

Create Their Own Problems

Delay

Don’t Care About You

Feel Like Groundhog Day

Forget

Have No Natural Enemy

Increase Friction

Keep You Waiting

Kill Momentum

Knot Up

Make Complexity Dangerous

Punish Maintenance

Punish Redundancy

Punish Repetition

Punish Scale

Quietly Create Effort

Quietly Expand

Quietly Waste Time

Resist Passage

Resist Stewardship

Seem To Have Intentions

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is (along with the police and the military) mankind's greatest adversary regardless of the form of government: It tramples all human values.

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus-the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others. Simone Weil

is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived. Karl Marx

is a form that does not offer efficiency as such, but the reduction of uncertainty through the rational application of rules.

What bureaucracy offers is not efficiency as such (Albrow, 1970), but the reduction ofuncertainty through the rational application of rules (Gajduschek, 2003)

is a form which develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more it succeeds in eliminating from official business love, hatred and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional.

[Bureaucracy] develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanised', the more it succeeds in eliminating from official business love, hatred and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements which escape calculation. This isthe specific nature of bureaucracy which it is appraised as its special virtue (Weber, in Gerth and Mills 1974: 216).

is a significant threat to democracy because even the master of politics stands as an utter 'dilettante' opposite the 'expert'.

He waspessimistic about the prospects for democracy, seeing 'the political master' as little more than the 'dilettante' standing opposite the 'expert', 'facing the trained official who stands within the management of administration' (Weber, in Gerth and Mills1974: 232). A powerful weapon in the bureaucrats' hands is the 'official secret', which is 'the specific invention of bureaucracy, and nothing is so fanatically defended by the bureaucracy as this attitude' (Weber, in Gerth and Mills 1974: 233). Secrecy staves off deliberation, and thus politics itself, which becomes 'a strong and slow boring of hard boards' (Weber, in Gerth and Mills 1974: 128).

is a system of administration associated with a high degree of specialization and a clearly defined division of labour, with tasks distributed as official duties.

Bureaucracy. A particular system of administration. Historically it was associated with the rule of government and governmental officials, but sociologist regard it as a form of administration that is found in organizations pursuing a wide variety of goals.As a technical term in sociology, bureaucracy is associated with M. Weber. He gave it a precise definition and suggested that it was the best administrative form for the rational or efficient pursuit of organizational goals. Weber's ideal type (q.v.) of bureaucracy comprised various elements: a high degree of specialization and a clearly defined division of labour, with tasks distributed as official duties... a (penguin dict. of sociology)Originally coined in the mid 18th century by economist Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay.

is a system of administration whereby the goal is to find a rule for every conceivable situation so that leadership is unnecessary and no one ever need be in doubt about what the right thing to do is.

the goal of bureacrats is to find a rule for every concivable situation so that no one need ever be in doubt about what is the right thing to do' (Bailey 2001:163).BUREAUCRAT AS (1) OBVIATING THE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP (2) TO PROMOTE STABILITY'when nothing much changes and everyone carries on doing wht thy have always done, and there are no ambiguities, there is little need for decisions, and therefore there is no call for leadership. This chapter will consider bureaucrates, whose job it is to promote exactly that kind of stability, and who, in that and other ways, tend to udnermine political leadrship' (Bailey 2001:69)If you see a snake, just kill it don't appoint a committee on snakes. H. Ross Perot

is a system wherein useless work drives out useful work.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. Milton Friedman

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