A Bonus: For All the Budding Bureaucrats

“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.â€? – Dean Acheson    

“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.â€? – Warren Buffet

“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.â€? – Laurence J. Peter

“After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.â€? – Unknown

“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.” – Andrew Carnegie 

 

“We trained hard – but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.â€? – Petronius Arbiter (or not.)