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Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
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…the machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies, riddled through and through with incompetence.
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…efficiency surveys… show that the only effective way of increasing efficiency in a hierarchy is by the infusion of new blood at its upper levels.
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…man is essentially hierarchical by nature, and must and will have hierarchies, whether they be patriarchal, feudal, capitalistic or socialistic.
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Staff accumulation… results from a sincere, though futile, quest for efficiency by upper-level members of the hierarchy.
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…the reality is that the problem is systemic and directly related to the limitations of hierarchy and basic managerial processes.
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Even in mature organizations, informal networks of change agents frequently operate under the hierarchical radar to making something new happen faster.
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…very few jobs in traditional hierarchical organizations provide the information and the experience needed to help people becomes leaders.
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Hierarchies with great management processes and good leaders on top are not built for leaping into a creative future.
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Management-driven hierarchies are built to minimize risk and keep people in their boxes and silos. To change this more than incrementally is to fight a losing battle.
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