Thursday, March 26, 2009

Quote: On Group Reogranization

Ever feel like your company/team/group reorganizes far too often and for unnecessary reasons? Here's an interesting quote on the matter:
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Roman Satirist, 210 BC
or
Robert Townsend, 'Up The Organization' 1970