Anand Mahindra Quotes

As a company grows, things get stuck at the top. It can be a bottleneck.

I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Priorities are set by legislators, regulators and industry interests. The consumer gets the left-overs.

There is little leadership or followership on the Hill.

Structure is not about moving boxes around on a chart. Structure is about power.

What is under our [the government’s] control is the signals we send and the way we organize ourselves.

They [the Trump Administration] didn't roll out the travel regulations as well as they should have. Runing the government is a lot different from running a business where a CEO gives an order and it is implemented, but that doesn't happen in this town.

As you grow as a company, you get layers and hierarchy that, in theory, should make your decisions a lot better. They get reviewed, and thoughtful people look at decision.

In modern times, the American military has become more bureaucratised.

If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

I'm committed to structural changes.

Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile.

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.

Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.

Neither one of us believe that you can fix the culture from within by just throwing money and people at the system. There has to be a systemic change within the system.

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

I think young people are recognizing the power of institutions, and we have to really dismantle a lot of the stigma and shame, culturally, but we also have to change things in terms of how government and institutions deal with this.

We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands it be that way. There's no villian, no 'mean guy' who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.