Aneel Bhusri Quotes

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

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

Big bureaucracies in business and government—they fail too.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept..

Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.

Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

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

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Government and business are simple. It's only people that make them complicated.

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from..

The fish rots from the head.

They work for bureaucracies and they become bureaucratized themselves.

The chances of catastrophe grow as organizations grow in number and size, and as internal communications become more time consuming and less intelligible.

Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.

I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.

Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.