Organizations

Organizations                                                       [718 - 676

Organizational skill are that you make quick decisions and get someone else to do the work.

Bureaucracy: a flawless method of converting energy to nothing.

Good bureaucrats are needed to maintain well-organized inefficiency.

Systems tend to grow and, as they grow, penetrate other areas.

Bureaucracy multiplies problems by appointing more officials.

The civil servant wants more subordinates, not competitors. He also creates more work for his colleagues.

Instructions for bureaucrats:
- If you have responsibility, consider.
- If you're in trouble, delegate.
- If in doubt, mumble.
If nothing else helps, follow the instructions.

An organization considers its internal order more important than efficient operations.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long after the status quo has lost its quo.

Phases of the project:
1. Enthusiasm.
2. Disappointment.
3. Panic.
4. Search for the guilty.
5. Punishment of the innocent.
6. Awards and honors for completely unrelated people.

Hierarchy 

The most important information in the hierarchy is to know who knows what.

The accuracy of information decreases as it rises towards the top of the bureaucracy.

In a hierarchical organization, an employee has the opportunity to advance to a position that corresponds to his incompetence.

If you work hard eight hours a day, you can become a boss and work twelve-hour days.

Your place in society is determined by what people say about you behind your back.

In all organizations, a small group rises to leadership, and others must adapt and obey.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that psychopathic ingredients rise to the top.

Spitting downwards is easy, but try to do it upwards.

It's not that far from a pat on the back to a kick in the butt.

If you're always at odds with your superior, it's time for one of you to disappear. Probably you.

We humans can be divided into two groups, some who go ahead and get something done and others of us who come later and criticize.

There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who collect glory. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

Responsibility

If you try every day to do a little more than is expected of you - soon you will be expected even a little more.

The actual work in an organization is done at its lowest levels.

You are responsible not only for what you do, but also for what you neglect to do.

If you did not have the information, you cannot take responsibility. If you had the information, you cannot avoid responsibility.

Leaving a very prestigious and responsible position is like a small death.

There are many in the cemetery who knew they were irreplaceable.

Some grow under responsibility, others just swell.

The great mockery of business management is that it is much easier for an incompetent CEO to keep his job than for an incompetent subordinate.

Leading

As a manager, you are a person who needs others.

A good leader leads by example, not by coercion.

Treat your subordinates as you would want your superiors to treat you.

What you dislike about your superiors should not be shown in your treatment of your subordinates.

You can deceive your superiors but not your subordinates.

Always mistrust a subordinate, who is never dissatisfied with his superior.

The leader is the one who knows how to make himself redundant.

The task of leadership is to produce more leaders, not followers.

The most important characteristic of a leader is the courage to make decisions.

Decision, is something that a manager has to make, when the information he has is so incomplete that the answer does not give itself.

Rule 1. The boss is always right.
Rule 2. If the boss is wrong, rule 1 applies.

As a leader, you have given up the right to make excuses.

One of the most important lessons in leadership, is to admit that you are not always the most important or intelligent person in the room.

The best manager is the one who has the judgment to select skilled people to do the things he wants done, and the self-control enough not to get involved in their work.

In most cases, the best and cheapest ideas for improving working conditions in the workplace come from the workers themselves.

You, as a leader must lead clearly, so that you are not misunderstood. Dare to take on the responsibilities and duties that apply to you as a leader. Always tell your subordinate the reasons for the decision that affects him/her.

As a leader, you must ensure that employees are kept well informed and that they are given opportunities to participate in planned changes in the workplace and that they are also given opportunities to develop at work.

Participating in committees is a pleasant way to grow old together.

The committee is a group of incompetents, chosen by the reluctant to do the impossible.

A committee is often a group of reluctants chosen by a bunch of inappropriate people misfits to decide something unnecessary.

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